Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Michael Patrick King

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

11.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

12.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

15.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

16.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

17.

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

18.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

19.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

20.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

21.

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

Groening, Matt

22.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

23.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

25.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

27.

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

Jane Austen

28.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

32.

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

33.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

38.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

39.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

40.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

41.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

42.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

43.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

44.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

45.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

46.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

47.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

48.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

49.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

50.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De