Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Love

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

10.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

11.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

12.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

13.

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

Murdoch, Iris

14.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

15.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

16.

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

17.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

18.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

21.

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

22.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

24.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

25.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

26.

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

27.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

28.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

29.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

30.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

31.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

32.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

33.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

34.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

35.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

36.

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

37.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

38.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

39.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

40.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

41.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

42.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

43.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

44.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

45.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

46.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

47.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

48.

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

Byron, Lord

49.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

50.

Do all things with love.