Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Eucharista Ward

Best Quotes about Love

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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

Shaw, George Bernard

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

11.

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

Dickinson, Emily

12.

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

Bible

13.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

14.

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

Rowland, Helen

15.

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.

16.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

18.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

19.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

20.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

21.

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

22.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

23.

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

24.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

25.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

26.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Peguy, Charles

28.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

29.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

30.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

31.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

32.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

33.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

34.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

35.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

36.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

37.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

38.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

39.

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

40.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

41.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

42.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

43.

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

44.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

45.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

46.

'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

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

48.

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

49.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

50.

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