Motivational Quotes

Love

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

- Upanishads, Veda

Best Quotes about Love

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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

Marlowe, Christopher

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

10.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

11.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

12.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

13.

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

Carl Jung

14.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

15.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

18.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

19.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

20.

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

21.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

22.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

23.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

24.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

25.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

26.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

27.

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

28.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

29.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

30.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

31.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

32.

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

33.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

34.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

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

36.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

38.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

39.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

40.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

42.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

43.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

44.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

45.

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

Hugo, Victor

46.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

47.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

48.

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

49.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth