Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

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

11.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

12.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

13.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

14.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

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

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

18.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

22.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

23.

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

Fromm, Erich

24.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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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

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

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

29.

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

Carroll, Pat

30.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

31.

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

32.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

33.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

34.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

35.

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

Mother Teresa

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

37.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

39.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Plato

41.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

42.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

43.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

44.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

46.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

47.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

48.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

49.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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

W. Somerset Maugham