Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

- Capote, Truman

Best Quotes about Love

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

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

10.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

11.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

12.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

13.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

14.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

15.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Williams, William Carlos

20.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

21.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

22.

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

23.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

24.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

25.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

26.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

27.

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

28.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

29.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

30.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

31.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

32.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

33.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Calvino, Italo

35.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

36.

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

Southey, Robert

37.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

38.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

39.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

40.

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

41.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

42.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

43.

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

44.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

45.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

46.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

47.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

50.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar