Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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

Chambless, David

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

Lewis, Sinclair

10.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

11.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

12.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

15.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

16.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

17.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

18.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

19.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

20.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

21.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

22.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

23.

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

Bible

24.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

25.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

26.

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

27.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

30.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

31.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

32.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

33.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

34.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

35.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

36.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

37.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

38.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

41.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

42.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

44.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

45.

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

Donne, John

46.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

47.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

48.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

49.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

50.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney