Motivational Quotes

Love

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

- Martineau, Harriet

Best Quotes about Love

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

10.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

11.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

12.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

13.

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

14.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

15.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

16.

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

Scherer, Paul

17.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

18.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

19.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

20.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

21.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

23.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

24.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

25.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

26.

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

Bible

27.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

28.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

29.

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

30.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

31.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

32.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

33.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

34.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

35.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

36.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

37.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

38.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

39.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

40.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

41.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

43.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

44.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

45.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

46.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

48.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

49.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

50.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.