Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Bible

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

10.

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

Burton, Robert

11.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

12.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

14.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

15.

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

Ovid

16.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

18.

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

Bertrand Russell

19.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

20.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

21.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

22.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

23.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

24.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

25.

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

26.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

27.

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

Byron, Lord

28.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

29.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

30.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

31.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

32.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

33.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

34.

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

Mother Teresa

35.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

36.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

37.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

38.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

39.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

40.

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

41.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

42.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

43.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

44.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

45.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

47.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

48.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

49.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

50.

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