Motivational Quotes

Love

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

- Mcdonald, George

Best Quotes about Love

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

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

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Proust, Marcel

11.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

12.

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

Seneca

13.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

14.

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

15.

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

Osgood, Samuel

16.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

18.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

19.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

20.

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

21.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

22.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

23.

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

24.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

25.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

26.

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

Bertrand Russell

27.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

28.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

29.

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

30.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

31.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

32.

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.

33.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

34.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

35.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

36.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

37.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

38.

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

39.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

40.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

43.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

44.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

47.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

48.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.