Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Aragon, Louis

Best Quotes about Love

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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

Hay, Louise L.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

10.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

11.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

12.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

13.

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

14.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

15.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

16.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

17.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

18.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

19.

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

20.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

22.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

23.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

24.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

25.

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

26.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

27.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

28.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

30.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

31.

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

Thurber, James

32.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

35.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

41.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

42.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

43.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

44.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

45.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

46.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

47.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn