Motivational Quotes

Love

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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

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

Groening, Matt

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

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

10.

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

Plato

11.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

13.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

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

Leunig, Michael

15.

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

Bourget, Paul

16.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

17.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

18.

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

19.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

20.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

21.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

22.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

23.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

24.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

25.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

26.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

27.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

29.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

31.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

32.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

33.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

37.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

38.

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

Eucharista Ward

39.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

40.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

41.

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

42.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

43.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

44.

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

Brookner, Anita

45.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

46.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

47.

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

48.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

49.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

50.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia