Motivational Quotes

Love

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Love

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

10.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

11.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

13.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

14.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

15.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

16.

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

National Lampoon

17.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

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

19.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

20.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

21.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

22.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

25.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

26.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

27.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

30.

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

31.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

32.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

33.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

34.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

35.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

36.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

37.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

38.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

39.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

40.

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

Proverb, Jewish

41.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

42.

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

Lao-Tzu

43.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

44.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

45.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

46.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

47.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

48.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

49.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

50.

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