Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Love

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

10.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

11.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

12.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

13.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

14.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

15.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

16.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

17.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

19.

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

20.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

21.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

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

Byron, Lord

23.

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.

24.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

25.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

26.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

28.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

29.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

30.

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

Reagan, Ronald

31.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

33.

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

34.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

36.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

37.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

38.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

40.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

41.

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

42.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

43.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

44.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

45.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

46.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

47.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.