Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Osgood, Samuel

Best Quotes about Love

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

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

10.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

11.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

12.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

13.

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

14.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

16.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

17.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

18.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

19.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

20.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

22.

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

Scherer, Paul

23.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

24.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

26.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

29.

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

30.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

31.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

32.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

33.

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

Byron, Lord

34.

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.

35.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

36.

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

Sand, George

37.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

38.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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.

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

41.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

42.

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

Richardson, Nick

43.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

44.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

45.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

46.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

47.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

48.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

49.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

50.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz