Motivational Quotes

Love

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Love

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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

Toni Morrison

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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

Turner, Ted

10.

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

11.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

12.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

13.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

14.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

15.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

16.

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

17.

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

18.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

19.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

20.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

21.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

22.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

23.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

24.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

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.

26.

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

Pascal, Blaise

27.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

29.

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

30.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

31.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

32.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

33.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

34.

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

35.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

36.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

37.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

38.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

39.

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

Carroll, Pat

40.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

41.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

42.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

47.

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

Chanel, Coco

48.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.