Motivational Quotes

Love

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

- Williams, Tennessee

Best Quotes about Love

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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

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

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

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

10.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

13.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

14.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

15.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

17.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

19.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

21.

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

Victor Hugo

22.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

25.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

26.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

27.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

28.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

29.

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.

30.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

31.

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

Southey, Robert

32.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

33.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

34.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

35.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

36.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

37.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

38.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

39.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

40.

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

41.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

42.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

43.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

44.

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

Mother Teresa

45.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

46.

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

47.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

48.

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

49.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

50.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny