Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Love

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

Croft, Roy

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

10.

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

11.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

12.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

14.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

15.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

16.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

17.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

18.

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

19.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

20.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

21.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

22.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

23.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

24.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

26.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

27.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

28.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

29.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

31.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

32.

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

33.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

34.

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

Donne, John

35.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

36.

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

Willis, Bruce

37.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

38.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

40.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

41.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

42.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

43.

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

Duras, Marguerite

44.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

45.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

46.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

47.

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

48.

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

Michael Patrick King

49.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

50.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund