Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Aragon, Louis

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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

John of the Cross, St.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

10.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

11.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

12.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

14.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

15.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

16.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

17.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

18.

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

19.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

20.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

27.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

28.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

29.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

30.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

31.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

32.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

33.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

34.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

35.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

36.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

37.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

38.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

39.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

40.

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

Irving, Washington

41.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

42.

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

Carl Jung

43.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

45.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

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

47.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

48.

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

Plato

49.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

50.

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