Motivational Quotes

Love

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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

10.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

11.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

13.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

14.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

15.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

16.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

18.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

19.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

20.

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

Carmichael, Amy

21.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

22.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

23.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

24.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

25.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

26.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

27.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

28.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

29.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

30.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

31.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

32.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

33.

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

Randy K. Milholland

34.

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

J. K. Rowling

35.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

37.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

39.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

40.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

41.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

42.

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.

43.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

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

Jerome, St.

46.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

47.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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