Motivational Quotes

Love

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

- Matthews, Andrew

Best Quotes about Love

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Proverb, Jewish

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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

Euripides

10.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

11.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

12.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

13.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

14.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

15.

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

16.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

17.

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

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

19.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

20.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

23.

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

Davis, Bette

24.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

25.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

26.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

27.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

28.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

29.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

30.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

31.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

33.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

34.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

36.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

37.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

38.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

39.

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

40.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

41.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

43.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

45.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

46.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

47.

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

48.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

49.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

50.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal