Motivational Quotes

Love

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

- Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Best Quotes about Love

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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

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

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

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

10.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

11.

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

William Shakespeare

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.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

14.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

15.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

17.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

18.

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

Blanton, Smiley

19.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

20.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

21.

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

Kempis, Thomas

22.

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

23.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

24.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

25.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

26.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Jeph Jacques

28.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

29.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

30.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

32.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

33.

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

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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

35.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

36.

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

37.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

38.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

39.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

40.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

41.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

42.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

43.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

44.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

45.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

46.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

47.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

48.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

49.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Franklin, Benjamin