Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

- Peter Ustinov

Best Quotes about Love

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

Julie Morgenstern

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

10.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

11.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

12.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

13.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

14.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

15.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

16.

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

17.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

18.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

20.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

21.

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

Randy K. Milholland

22.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

23.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

24.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

25.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

26.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

27.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

28.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

29.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

30.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

31.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

32.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

33.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

34.

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

35.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

36.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

37.

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

Harrigan, John

38.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

39.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

40.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

41.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

42.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

43.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

44.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

45.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

46.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

48.

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

49.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

50.

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

Murdoch, Iris