Motivational Quotes

Love

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Love

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Buber, Martin

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

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

Mother Teresa

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

10.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

11.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

14.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

15.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

16.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

17.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

18.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

19.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Willis, Bruce

21.

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

John of the Cross, St.

22.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

23.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

24.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

25.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

26.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

27.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

28.

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.

29.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

30.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

31.

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

Irving, Washington

32.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

33.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

35.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

37.

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

38.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

39.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

40.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

41.

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

Clark, Melanie

42.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

43.

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

44.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

45.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

46.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

47.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

48.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.