Motivational Quotes

Love

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

- Traherne, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

11.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

12.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

13.

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.

14.

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

Vicious, Sid

15.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

18.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

19.

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

Brookner, Anita

20.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

21.

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

Du Coeur

22.

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

Bible

23.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

24.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

25.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

26.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

28.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

29.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

30.

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

Fromm, Erich

31.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

32.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

33.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

35.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

36.

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

37.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

38.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

39.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

40.

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

41.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

44.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

45.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.