Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

10.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

11.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

12.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

13.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

14.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

15.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

16.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

17.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

19.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

20.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

22.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

23.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

24.

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

Behn, Aphra

25.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

26.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

27.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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

29.

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

30.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

32.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

33.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

35.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

36.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

37.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

38.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

39.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

40.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

41.

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

42.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

43.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

44.

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.

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

47.

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

48.

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

Bible

49.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

50.

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