Motivational Quotes

Love

Love, while you are able to love.

- Frieligrath, A.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Fromm, Erich

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

11.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

12.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

13.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

14.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

15.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

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

17.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

18.

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

Traherne, Thomas

19.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

20.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

21.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

22.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

23.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

24.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

25.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

26.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

27.

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

Davies, Robertson

28.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

29.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

30.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

31.

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

Byron, Lord

32.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

33.

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

34.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

35.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

36.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

37.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

38.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

40.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.