Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Love

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

10.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

14.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

15.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

16.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

17.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

19.

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

20.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

21.

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

Delp, Alexis

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

24.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

25.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

26.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

27.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

28.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

29.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

30.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

33.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

34.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

35.

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

Bertrand Russell

36.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

37.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

38.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

39.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

40.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

41.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

42.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

44.

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

45.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

46.

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

47.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

48.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

49.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

50.

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