Motivational Quotes

Love

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

- John of the Cross, St.

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

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.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

10.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

11.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

12.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

13.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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.

16.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

17.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

18.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

19.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

20.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

21.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

22.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

23.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

24.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

25.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

26.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

27.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

28.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

29.

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

30.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

31.

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

Donne, John

32.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

33.

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

Croft, Roy

34.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

35.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

36.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

37.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

38.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

39.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

42.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

43.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

44.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

45.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

46.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

47.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

48.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

49.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

50.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel