Motivational Quotes

Love

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Love

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

10.

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

14.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

16.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

17.

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

Hugo, Victor

18.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

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

Bailey, Pearl

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

22.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

24.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

25.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

26.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

27.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

31.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

32.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

33.

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

Kempis, Thomas

34.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

36.

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

Augustine, St.

37.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

38.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

39.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

40.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

41.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

42.

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.

43.

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

Paolo Giordano

44.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

45.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

46.

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

47.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

48.

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

49.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

50.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle