Motivational Quotes

Love

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

- Szasz, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

11.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

12.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

13.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

14.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

15.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

16.

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

17.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

18.

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

19.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

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

21.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

22.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

23.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

24.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Real Live Preacher

31.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

32.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

33.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

34.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

35.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

36.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

37.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

38.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

39.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

40.

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

41.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

42.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

43.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

44.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

45.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

46.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

47.

Szasz, Thomas

48.

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

49.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi