Motivational Quotes

Love

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Love

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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

Heinlein, Robert

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

11.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

12.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

13.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

14.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

16.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

17.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

18.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

19.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Irish

22.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

23.

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

24.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Osgood, Samuel

27.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

29.

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

Wieder, Marcia

30.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

31.

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

Calvino, Italo

32.

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

33.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

35.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

36.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

37.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

38.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

39.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

40.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

41.

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

42.

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

Byron, Lord

43.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

44.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

46.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

47.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine