Motivational Quotes

Love

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

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

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

10.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

11.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

12.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

13.

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

14.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

15.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

17.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

18.

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

19.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

Kempis, Thomas

21.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

22.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

23.

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

24.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

25.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

26.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Bertrand Russell

28.

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

29.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

30.

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

31.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

32.

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

Ice T

33.

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

34.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

36.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

37.

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

Buddha

38.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

39.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

40.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

41.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

42.

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

Behn, Aphra

43.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

44.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

45.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

46.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

47.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

48.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

49.

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

Proverb, Spanish

50.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita