Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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

Byron, Lord

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

10.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

11.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

12.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

13.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

14.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

15.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

16.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

18.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

19.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

22.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

23.

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

24.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

25.

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

26.

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

William Penn

27.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

28.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

29.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

30.

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

31.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

32.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

36.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

37.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

38.

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

Croft, Roy

39.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

40.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

41.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

42.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

43.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

44.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

45.

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

Willis, Bruce

46.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

50.

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