Motivational Quotes

Love

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

- Wilde, Kim

Best Quotes about Love

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Davis, Bette

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Vicious, Sid

12.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

13.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

15.

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

16.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

17.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

18.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

22.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

23.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

25.

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

26.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

Richardson, Nick

28.

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

29.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

30.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

31.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

32.

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

Hay, Louise L.

33.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

34.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

35.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

36.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

37.

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

38.

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

Horton, Doug

39.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

40.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

41.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

42.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

43.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

44.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

45.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

46.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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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

48.

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

Clark, Melanie

49.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent