Motivational Quotes

Love

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

10.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

11.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

13.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

14.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

15.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

16.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

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

Bailey, Pearl

18.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

19.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

21.

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.

22.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

23.

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

Wieder, Marcia

24.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

25.

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

Behn, Aphra

26.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

27.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

29.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

30.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

31.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

32.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

33.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

34.

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

Dryden, John

35.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

36.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

37.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

38.

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

39.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

40.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

41.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

42.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

43.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

45.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

46.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

47.

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

Calvino, Italo

48.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

49.

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

50.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson