Motivational Quotes

Love

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

10.

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

11.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

12.

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

13.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

14.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

15.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

16.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

17.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

19.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

20.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

27.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

28.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

29.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

30.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

33.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

34.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

35.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

36.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

37.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

38.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

39.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

40.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

41.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

42.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

43.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

44.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

45.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

46.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

47.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

48.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

49.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

50.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.