Motivational Quotes

Love

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Love

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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 are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

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

12.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

13.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

14.

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

Paolo Giordano

15.

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

16.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

18.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

19.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

21.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

22.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

23.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

24.

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

Ovid

25.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

26.

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

Dryden, John

27.

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

28.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

29.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

30.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

31.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

32.

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

Proverb, Irish

33.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

34.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

35.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

36.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

38.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.