Motivational Quotes

Love

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

- Trefusis, Violet

Best Quotes about Love

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Connolly, Cyril

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bible

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

12.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

13.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

14.

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

15.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

17.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

18.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

19.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

20.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

21.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

22.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

23.

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

24.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

25.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

26.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

27.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

28.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

29.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

30.

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

31.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

32.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Buber, Martin

34.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

36.

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

37.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

38.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

39.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

40.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

41.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

42.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

44.

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

45.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

46.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

47.

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

48.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

49.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

50.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel