Motivational Quotes

Love

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

- M. Scott Peck

Best Quotes about Love

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

Proverb, French

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

10.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

11.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

12.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

13.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

14.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

15.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

16.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

17.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

18.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

19.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

20.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

21.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

22.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

24.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

25.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

26.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

27.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

28.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

29.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

31.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

32.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

33.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

34.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

35.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

36.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

37.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

38.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

39.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

43.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

45.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

46.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

47.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

48.

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

49.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

50.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John