Motivational Quotes

Love

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

- Dioum, Baba

Best Quotes about Love

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Petrarch, Francesco

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

10.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

11.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

13.

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

14.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

15.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

16.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

17.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

18.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

19.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

20.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

21.

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

22.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

23.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

24.

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

Paolo Giordano

25.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

26.

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

Ackerman, Diane

27.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

28.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

29.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

30.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

31.

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

Carl Jung

32.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

33.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

37.

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

Bible

38.

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.

39.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Rita Rudner

41.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

42.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

43.

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

Dryden, John

44.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

46.

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

Proust, Marcel

47.

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

48.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

49.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

50.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius