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

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Durrell, Lawrence

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

11.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

13.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

14.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

15.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

16.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

17.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

18.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

19.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

20.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

21.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

22.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

23.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

24.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

25.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

26.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

27.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

28.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

32.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

33.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

34.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

35.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

38.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

44.

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.

45.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

46.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

47.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

48.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

49.

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

50.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von