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

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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

Bible

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

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

11.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

12.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

13.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

14.

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

DiFranco, Ani

15.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

16.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

19.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

23.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

25.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

26.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

27.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

28.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

29.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

30.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

31.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

32.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

33.

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

Pythagoras

34.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

35.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

36.

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

Kempis, Thomas

37.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

38.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

39.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

40.

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

41.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

42.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

43.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

44.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

47.

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

48.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

49.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

50.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph