Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

William Shakespeare

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

10.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

11.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

12.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

13.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

14.

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

Fromm, Erich

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

18.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

19.

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

20.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

21.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

22.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

23.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

25.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

26.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

27.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

28.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

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

30.

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

31.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

34.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

35.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

36.

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

37.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

38.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

39.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

40.

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

41.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

44.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

45.

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

Duffy, Maureen

46.

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

Connolly, Cyril

47.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

48.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

49.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

50.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen