Motivational Quotes

Love

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

- Carl Jung

Best Quotes about Love

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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

Eucharista Ward

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

10.

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

Tomlin, Lily

11.

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

Real Live Preacher

12.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

13.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

14.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

15.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

16.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

17.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

18.

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.

19.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

21.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

22.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

23.

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

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

27.

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

28.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

29.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

30.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

31.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

32.

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

33.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

34.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

35.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

36.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

37.

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

38.

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

39.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

40.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

41.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

42.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

44.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

45.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

46.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

47.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

48.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

49.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

50.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.