Motivational Quotes

Love

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

- French, Marilyn

Best Quotes about Love

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Hay, Louise L.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

10.

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.

11.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

12.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

13.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

17.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

18.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

19.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

23.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

24.

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

25.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

26.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

27.

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

28.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

29.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

30.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

31.

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

Irving, Washington

32.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

34.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

35.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

36.

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

Brown, Les

37.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

38.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

39.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

40.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

44.

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

Paolo Giordano

45.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

46.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

47.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

48.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

49.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

50.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise