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

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

10.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

11.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Orwell, George

13.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

14.

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

Bertrand Russell

15.

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

Southey, Robert

16.

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

17.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

18.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

19.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

20.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

21.

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

Julie Morgenstern

22.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

23.

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.

24.

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

Rossetti, Christina

25.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

26.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

27.

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

West, Mae

28.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

29.

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

30.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

31.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

32.

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

Mcdonald, George

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

37.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

38.

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

Willis, Bruce

39.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

41.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

42.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

43.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

44.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

45.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

46.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

47.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

48.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

49.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

50.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho