Motivational Quotes

Love

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Love

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

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

Carl Jung

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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

10.

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

11.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

12.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

13.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

14.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

15.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Fromm, Erich

19.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

20.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

21.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

22.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

23.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

24.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

25.

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

26.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

27.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

28.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

31.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

32.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

33.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

34.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

35.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

36.

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

37.

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

Harrigan, John

38.

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

Donne, John

39.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

40.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

41.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

42.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

43.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

44.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

45.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

46.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

47.

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

Bailey, Pearl

48.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

49.

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

Wilkerson, David

50.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost