Motivational Quotes

Love

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

- Levine, Stephen

Best Quotes about Love

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

10.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

11.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

12.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

13.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

15.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

16.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

17.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

18.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

19.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

20.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

21.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

22.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

24.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

25.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

26.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

27.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

28.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

29.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

30.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

31.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

32.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

33.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

34.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

35.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

36.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

37.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

38.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

39.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

40.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

41.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

42.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

43.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

44.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

46.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

47.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

48.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

49.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

50.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.