Motivational Quotes

Love

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

Best Quotes about Love

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

10.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

11.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

12.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

13.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

14.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

15.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

16.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

17.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

18.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

19.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

20.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

21.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

22.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

23.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

24.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

27.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

28.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

29.

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

30.

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

Jeph Jacques

31.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

33.

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

David Viscott

34.

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

35.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

36.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

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

Scherer, Paul

38.

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

Sophocles

39.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

40.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

41.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

42.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

43.

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

44.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

45.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

48.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

49.

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

Bible

50.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.