Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Jerome, St.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

12.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

13.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

14.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

15.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

16.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

18.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

19.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

20.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

21.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

22.

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

23.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

24.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

25.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

26.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

27.

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

Vicious, Sid

28.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

29.

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

30.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

31.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

32.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

33.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

34.

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

35.

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

Mencken, H. L.

36.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

37.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

38.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

39.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

40.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

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

42.

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

43.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

44.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

45.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

46.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

47.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

48.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

49.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.