Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Love

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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

Buddha

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

Wieder, Marcia

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

14.

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

Davis, Bette

15.

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

16.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

17.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

18.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

19.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

20.

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

Mcdonald, George

21.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

22.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Margaret Cho

24.

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

25.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

27.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

28.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

29.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

30.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

31.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

32.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

33.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

35.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

36.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

37.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

39.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Duras, Marguerite

42.

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

Donne, John

43.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

45.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

46.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

47.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

48.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

49.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

50.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.