Motivational Quotes

Love

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Love

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

10.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

14.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

15.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

16.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

17.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

18.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

19.

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

20.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

21.

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

Barry, Lynda

22.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

23.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

24.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

Paolo Giordano

26.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

27.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

30.

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

Proverb, Japanese

31.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

32.

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

Charles M. Schulz

33.

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

Chambless, David

34.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

35.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

36.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

37.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

38.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

39.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

40.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

41.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

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

Peter Ustinov