Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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

Proverb, Irish

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

10.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

11.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

12.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

13.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

14.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

15.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

16.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

17.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

18.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

20.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

21.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

22.

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

23.

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

Leunig, Michael

24.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

25.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

26.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

27.

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

Levine, Stephen

28.

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

Pascal, Blaise

29.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

30.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

31.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

32.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

33.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

34.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

35.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

36.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

37.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

38.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

39.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

40.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

41.

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

Bible

42.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

43.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

44.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

45.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

46.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

47.

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

48.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

49.

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

Dane, Frank

50.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward