Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

10.

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

11.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

12.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

13.

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

Elizabeth Aston

14.

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

Brown, David

15.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

19.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

20.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

22.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

23.

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.

24.

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

Byron, Lord

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

27.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

29.

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

30.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

31.

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

32.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

38.

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

39.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

40.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

41.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

42.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

43.

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

Mencken, H. L.

44.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

45.

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

Jane Austen

46.

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

47.

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

48.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

49.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

50.

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