Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Love

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Bette Davis

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

W. Somerset Maugham

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

10.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

11.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

12.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

13.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

17.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

18.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

19.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

21.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

22.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

24.

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

Diane Ackerman

25.

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.

26.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

27.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

28.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

29.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

30.

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

31.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

32.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

34.

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

Wilkerson, David

35.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

36.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

37.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

38.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

39.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

40.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

41.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

42.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Paolo Giordano

46.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

47.

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

48.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

49.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

50.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott