Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Wieder, Marcia

Best Quotes about Love

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

10.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

11.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

14.

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.

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

17.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

18.

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.

19.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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.

21.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

22.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

23.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

26.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

27.

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

Fromm, Erich

28.

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

31.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

32.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

33.

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

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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

35.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

36.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

37.

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

Tomlin, Lily

38.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

39.

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

40.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

41.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

42.

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

Sophocles

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

Jerome, St.

44.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

45.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

46.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

47.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat