Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Love

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Mother Teresa

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

10.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

11.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

12.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

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

14.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

15.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

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

Dane, Frank

17.

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

Heinlein, Robert

18.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

20.

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

Groening, Matt

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

23.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

27.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

28.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

29.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

30.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

33.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

34.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

35.

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

36.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

38.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

39.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

40.

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

Eucharista Ward

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

43.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

44.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

45.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

46.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

47.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

48.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

49.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

50.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith