Motivational Quotes

Love

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

- Sand, George

Best Quotes about Love

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

11.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

12.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

13.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

14.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

17.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

19.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

20.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

21.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

22.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

23.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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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.

25.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

26.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

27.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

28.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

29.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

30.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

31.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

32.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

33.

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

34.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

35.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

36.

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

37.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

38.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

40.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

41.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

42.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

43.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

44.

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

Calvino, Italo

45.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

46.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

48.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

49.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

50.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.