Motivational Quotes

Love

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Love

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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.

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.

10.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

11.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

12.

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.

13.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

14.

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

John of the Cross, St.

15.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

18.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

19.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

20.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

21.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

22.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

23.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

24.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

27.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

28.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

29.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

30.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

35.

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

Leunig, Michael

36.

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

Smith, Sydney

37.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

38.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

39.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

40.

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

Eucharista Ward

41.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

42.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

43.

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

44.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

45.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

46.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

47.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

48.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

49.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

50.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.