Motivational Quotes

Love

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

- Strong, Anna

Best Quotes about Love

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

10.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

11.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

12.

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

Sophocles

13.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

14.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

15.

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

Fromm, Erich

16.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

17.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

18.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

19.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

20.

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

Law, William

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

24.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

25.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

27.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

29.

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

30.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

31.

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

Bourget, Paul

32.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

33.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

34.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

35.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

36.

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

Dryden, John

37.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

38.

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

Erica Jong

39.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

41.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

42.

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

43.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

44.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

45.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

46.

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

47.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

48.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

49.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

50.

Every man loves what he is good at.