Motivational Quotes

Love

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

10.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

11.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

12.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

13.

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

14.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

16.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

17.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Murdoch, Iris

19.

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

20.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

21.

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

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

24.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

25.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

26.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

27.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

28.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

29.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

30.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

31.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

32.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

33.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

34.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

37.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

38.

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

Rita Rudner

39.

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

Brooke, Rupert

40.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

41.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

42.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Capote, Truman

44.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

45.

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

46.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

47.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

48.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

49.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

50.

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