Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Jerome, St.

Best Quotes about Love

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

10.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

11.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

12.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

13.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

14.

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

Hugo, Victor

15.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

16.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

19.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Anouilh, Jean

21.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

22.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

23.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

24.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

25.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

26.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

27.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

28.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

29.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

31.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

33.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

34.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

36.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

37.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

38.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

39.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

40.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

41.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

42.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

45.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

46.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

47.

Love is a friendship set to music.