Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

- Hirschfield, Mangnu

Best Quotes about Love

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

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

11.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

12.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

13.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

14.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

15.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

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.

22.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

23.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

24.

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

25.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

27.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

28.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

29.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

30.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

31.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

35.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Brown, David

39.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

40.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

41.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

44.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

45.

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

Jane Austen

46.

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

Hay, Louise L.

47.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

48.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug