Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

10.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

11.

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.

12.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

13.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

14.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

15.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

16.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

17.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

20.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

21.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

22.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

27.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

30.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

32.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

33.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

36.

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

Layton, Irving

37.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

38.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

39.

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

40.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

41.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

43.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

44.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

45.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

46.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

47.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

48.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

49.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

50.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales