Motivational Quotes

Love

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Love

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Jean Anouilh

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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

William Shakespeare

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

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

10.

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

11.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

13.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

14.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

15.

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

David Viscott

16.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

17.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

18.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

21.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

23.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

24.

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

25.

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

Buddha

26.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

27.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

28.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

29.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

30.

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

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

33.

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

Rita Rudner

34.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

35.

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

Allen, Woody

36.

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

Proust, Marcel

37.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

38.

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

Proverb, French

39.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

40.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

41.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

42.

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

43.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

44.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

45.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

47.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

48.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

49.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

50.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin