Motivational Quotes

Love

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

10.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

11.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

12.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

13.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

14.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

15.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

16.

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

Pythagoras

17.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

18.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

19.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Proverb, Spanish

21.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

22.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

23.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

24.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

25.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

26.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

27.

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

28.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

29.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

33.

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

Proverb, Irish

34.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

35.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

38.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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.