Motivational Quotes

Love

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Love

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bailey, Pearl

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

10.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

11.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

13.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

14.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

18.

Arendt, Hannah

19.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

20.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

23.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

24.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

25.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

26.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

27.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

28.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

29.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

30.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

32.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

33.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

34.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

38.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

39.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

40.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

41.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

42.

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

43.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

44.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

45.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

46.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

47.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

50.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.