Motivational Quotes

Love

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

- Sara Zarr

Best Quotes about Love

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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

Groening, Matt

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

10.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

13.

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

14.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

15.

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

Mother Teresa

16.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

19.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

20.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

22.

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

Rowland, Helen

23.

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

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

26.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

27.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

28.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Layton, Irving

30.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

31.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

32.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

33.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

34.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

35.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

36.

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

37.

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

38.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

39.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

40.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

41.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

42.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

43.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.