Motivational Quotes

Love

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

- Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Best Quotes about Love

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Sand, George

11.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

12.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

13.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

14.

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

15.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

16.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

17.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

18.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

19.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

20.

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

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

23.

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

Chambless, David

24.

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

25.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

26.

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

Murdoch, Iris

27.

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.

28.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

29.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

30.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

31.

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

32.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

33.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

Brown, David

35.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

36.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

37.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

Toni Morrison

39.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

41.

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

Calvino, Italo

42.

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

Euripides

43.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

46.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

47.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

48.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

49.

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

50.

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