Motivational Quotes

Love

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

- Teresa of Avila, St.

Best Quotes about Love

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

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

William Shakespeare

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

10.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

11.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

12.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

13.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

14.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

15.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

16.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

17.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

18.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

19.

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

Alan Watts

20.

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.

21.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

22.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

23.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

24.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

25.

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

Carroll, Pat

26.

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

Jeanne Moreau

27.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

28.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

30.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

31.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

32.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

36.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

37.

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.

38.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

39.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

40.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

41.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

42.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

43.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.