Motivational Quotes

Love

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

- Luce, Clare Boothe

Best Quotes about Love

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

10.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

11.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

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

Osgood, Samuel

14.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

15.

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

Rossetti, Christina

16.

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

17.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

18.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

19.

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

20.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

21.

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

John of the Cross, St.

22.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

23.

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

Proust, Marcel

24.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

25.

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

Dickinson, Emily

26.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

27.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

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

Anouilh, Jean

29.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

30.

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

Bertrand Russell

31.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

33.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

34.

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

35.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

36.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

37.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

38.

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

39.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

40.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

41.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

44.

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