Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

10.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

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

Davies, Robertson

12.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

13.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

14.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

15.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

16.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

18.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

19.

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

20.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

21.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

22.

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

23.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

24.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

25.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

26.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

27.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

28.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Fromm, Erich

30.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

31.

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

32.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

33.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

34.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

35.

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

36.

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

37.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

38.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

39.

'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

40.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

41.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

42.

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

43.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

44.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

45.

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

46.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

47.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

48.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

49.

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