Motivational Quotes

Love

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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

Anouilh, Jean

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

10.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

11.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

12.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

13.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

14.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

15.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

16.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

17.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

18.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

19.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

20.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

22.

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

23.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

24.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

25.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

26.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

31.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

35.

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

36.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

37.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

38.

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

Toni Morrison

39.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

40.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

41.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

42.

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

Brown, David

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

45.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

46.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

50.

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

William Shakespeare