Motivational Quotes

Love

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Love

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

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.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

10.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

11.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

12.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

13.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

15.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

16.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

17.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

18.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

20.

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

21.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

22.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

23.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

24.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

25.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

26.

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

27.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

28.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

29.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

30.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

31.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

32.

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

John of the Cross, St.

33.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

34.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

35.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

36.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

37.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

38.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

39.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

41.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

42.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

43.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

44.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

45.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

46.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

47.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

48.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

49.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

50.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen