Motivational Quotes

Love

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

- Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Best Quotes about Love

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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

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

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

10.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

11.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

12.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

13.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

14.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

15.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

16.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

17.

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.

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

21.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

22.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

23.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

24.

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

Margaret Cho

25.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

26.

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

27.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

28.

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

Martineau, Harriet

29.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

30.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

31.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

32.

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

33.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

34.

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

John of the Cross, St.

35.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

36.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

37.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

38.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

39.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

40.

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.

41.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

44.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

45.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

46.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

47.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

48.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

49.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

50.

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