Motivational Quotes

Love

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

- Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

10.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

11.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

12.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

13.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

15.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

16.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

17.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

18.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

19.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

21.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

22.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

23.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

24.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

26.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

27.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

28.

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

Jennifer Aniston

29.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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.

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

Chambless, David

32.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

33.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

35.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

36.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

37.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

38.

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

Hugo, Victor

39.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

40.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

41.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

42.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

43.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

44.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

45.

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

Connolly, Cyril

46.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

47.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

48.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.