Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

10.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

11.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

12.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

13.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

14.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

15.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

18.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

19.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

20.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

23.

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

24.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

25.

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

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

28.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

29.

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

30.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

31.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

32.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

33.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

36.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

37.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

40.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

41.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

42.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

43.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

44.

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

Voltaire

45.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

46.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

47.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

48.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

49.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

50.

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