Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Sand, George

Best Quotes about Love

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

10.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

13.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

14.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

15.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

17.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

18.

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

Wilde, Kim

19.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

20.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

21.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

22.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

23.

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

24.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

25.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

26.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

27.

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

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

29.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

30.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

31.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

32.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

33.

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

Buddha

34.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

35.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

36.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

37.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

42.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

43.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

44.

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

45.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

46.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

47.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.