Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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

Byron, Lord

10.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

11.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

12.

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

Eucharista Ward

13.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

14.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

15.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

16.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

17.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

18.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

19.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

20.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

21.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

22.

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

23.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

26.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

27.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

28.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

29.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

30.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

31.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

32.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

33.

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

Mcdonald, George

34.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

35.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

36.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

37.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

38.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

40.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Du Coeur

42.

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

Toni Morrison

43.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

44.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

45.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

47.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

48.

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

49.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

50.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson