Motivational Quotes

Love

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Love

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

10.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

11.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

12.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

14.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

15.

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

Capote, Truman

16.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

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.

18.

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

Murdoch, Iris

19.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

20.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

21.

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

22.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

23.

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

Buddha

24.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

25.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

26.

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

27.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

28.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

29.

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

30.

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

Behn, Aphra

31.

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.

32.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

33.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

34.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

35.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

36.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

37.

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

Jane Austen

38.

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

39.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

42.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

43.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

44.

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

Randy K. Milholland

45.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

46.

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

Proverb

47.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

48.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

49.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

50.

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