Motivational Quotes

Love

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

- Brookner, Anita

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

10.

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

11.

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

Hay, Louise L.

12.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

13.

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

Proverb, French

14.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

15.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

16.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

19.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

20.

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.

21.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

22.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

23.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

24.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

25.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

26.

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

Disney, Walt

27.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

28.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

David Viscott

31.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

32.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

35.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

38.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

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

40.

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

Delp, Alexis

41.

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

Donne, John

42.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

43.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

44.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

45.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

47.

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

Bible

48.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]