Motivational Quotes

Love

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

- Layton, Irving

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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

Ice T

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

10.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

11.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

12.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

14.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

15.

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

16.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

19.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

20.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

21.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

22.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

23.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

24.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

25.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

26.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

27.

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

28.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

29.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

30.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

31.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

32.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

34.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

36.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

37.

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

38.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

39.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

40.

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

41.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

45.

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.

46.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

47.

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

48.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

49.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

50.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John