Motivational Quotes

Love

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

- Martineau, Harriet

Best Quotes about Love

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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

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

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

10.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

11.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

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

Proust, Marcel

13.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

14.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

16.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

17.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

18.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

19.

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

20.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

21.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

22.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

23.

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

24.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Buddha

28.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

29.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

30.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

31.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

32.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

33.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

34.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

35.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

36.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

37.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

38.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

41.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

42.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

43.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

44.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

45.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

46.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

47.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

48.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

49.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

50.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George