Motivational Quotes

Love

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

10.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

11.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

12.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

13.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

14.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

15.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

18.

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

Bertrand Russell

19.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

21.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

22.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

26.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

27.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

28.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

29.

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

30.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

32.

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

Hugo, Victor

33.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

34.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

35.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

36.

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

37.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

40.

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

41.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

42.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

43.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

44.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

45.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

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

Proverb, Spanish

47.

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

48.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

49.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

50.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales