Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

Toni Morrison

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

10.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

11.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

12.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

13.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

14.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

15.

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

Aristotle

16.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

17.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

18.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

20.

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

Harrigan, John

21.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

23.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

27.

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.

28.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

29.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

30.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

31.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

32.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

33.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

34.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

35.

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

Reik, Theodor

36.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

37.

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

Southey, Robert

38.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

39.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

40.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

41.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

43.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

45.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

Scott Westerfeld

47.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

48.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

49.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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

Ice T