Motivational Quotes

Love

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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

Paolo Giordano

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

11.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

12.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

13.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Strindberg, J. August

15.

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

Sophocles

16.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

20.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

21.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

23.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

25.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

26.

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

27.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

28.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

29.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

31.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

32.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

33.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

37.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

38.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

39.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

40.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

41.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

42.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

43.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

44.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

45.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.