Motivational Quotes

Love

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

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Best Quotes about Love

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

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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

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

Williams, William Carlos

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

10.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

12.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

13.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

16.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

17.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

18.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

19.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

20.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

21.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

22.

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

23.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

24.

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.

25.

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

Carl Jung

26.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

27.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

28.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

30.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

31.

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

32.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

33.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

34.

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

Bette Davis

35.

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

36.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

37.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

38.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

39.

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

40.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

41.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

42.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

45.

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

Strindberg, J. August

46.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

47.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

48.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

49.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

50.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt