Motivational Quotes

Love

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

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

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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

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.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

10.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

11.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

12.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

13.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

14.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

15.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

16.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

17.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

18.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

19.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

20.

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

21.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

22.

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

23.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

25.

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

26.

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

27.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

28.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

29.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

30.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

31.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

32.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Brookner, Anita

36.

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

Rowland, Helen

37.

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

38.

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

Alan Watts

39.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

40.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

41.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

43.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

44.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

46.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.