Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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

Julie Morgenstern

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

10.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

11.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

12.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

13.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

14.

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

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

16.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

17.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

18.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

19.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

20.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

22.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

23.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

24.

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

25.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

27.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

29.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

30.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

32.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

33.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

38.

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

39.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

40.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

41.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

42.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

43.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

45.

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

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

48.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

49.

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

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van