Motivational Quotes

Love

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

- Stael, Germaine De

Best Quotes about Love

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

10.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

11.

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

12.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

13.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

14.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

15.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

16.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

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

18.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

19.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

20.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

22.

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

Barry, Lynda

23.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

24.

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

Proverb

25.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.

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

Carroll, Pat

27.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

28.

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

29.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

30.

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

Bible

31.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

32.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

33.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

34.

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

35.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

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

38.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

39.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

40.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

41.

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

Brown, Les

42.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

45.

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

Mencken, H. L.

46.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

47.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

49.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

50.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa