Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

- Sesame Street

Best Quotes about Love

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

12.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

13.

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

14.

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

Chanel, Coco

15.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

16.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

18.

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

19.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

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

Buddha

21.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

22.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

23.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

24.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

25.

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

26.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

28.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

29.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

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

Buddha

31.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

32.

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

33.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

35.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

36.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

37.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

39.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

40.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

41.

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

Voltaire

42.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

43.

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

44.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

45.

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

Ovid

46.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

47.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

48.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

49.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

50.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted