Motivational Quotes

Love

Lovers should also have their days off.

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about Love

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

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

Hertl, Nick

10.

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

Blanton, Smiley

11.

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

Donne, John

12.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

13.

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

Vicious, Sid

14.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

15.

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

16.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

17.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

18.

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

Thurber, James

19.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

20.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

22.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

23.

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

Rita Rudner

24.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

25.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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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

27.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

28.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

29.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

31.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

32.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

33.

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.

34.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

35.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

38.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

39.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

40.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

41.

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

42.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

43.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

44.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

45.

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

46.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Irving, Washington

48.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

49.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

50.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas