Motivational Quotes

Love

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

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

Vicious, Sid

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

10.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

11.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

12.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

15.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

16.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

17.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

18.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

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

Aragon, Louis

20.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

22.

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

Proverb, Irish

23.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

25.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

26.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

27.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

29.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

30.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

31.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

32.

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.

33.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

34.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

36.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

37.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

38.

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

39.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

40.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

41.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

42.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

45.

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

Harrigan, John

46.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

47.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

48.

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

49.

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

50.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul