Motivational Quotes

Love

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

- Anderson, Margaret

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Law, William

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

12.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

13.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

14.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

15.

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

16.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

17.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

18.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Bible

20.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

21.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

22.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

23.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

24.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

25.

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.

26.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

29.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

31.

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

32.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

33.

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

34.

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

Sophocles

35.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

36.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

37.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

38.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

39.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

42.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

43.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

44.

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