Motivational Quotes

Love

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Love

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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

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

Pythagoras

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

10.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

11.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

12.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

13.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

14.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

15.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

16.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

19.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

20.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

21.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

22.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

23.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

24.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

25.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

26.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

27.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

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

Scott Westerfeld

29.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

30.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

31.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

32.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

33.

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.

34.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

36.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

37.

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

38.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

39.

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

40.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

41.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

45.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

46.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

47.

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

Auerbach, Red

48.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

50.

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