Motivational Quotes

Love

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

- Brooke, Rupert

Best Quotes about Love

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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

John of the Cross, St.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

William Shakespeare

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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

Stravinsky, Igor

10.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

11.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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

13.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

14.

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

Traherne, Thomas

15.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

16.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

17.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

19.

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

20.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

21.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

22.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

23.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

24.

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

Bible

25.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

27.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

29.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

30.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

31.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

34.

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

Connolly, Cyril

35.

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

36.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

37.

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

38.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

39.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

40.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

41.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

42.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

43.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

46.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

48.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

49.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

50.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas