Motivational Quotes

Love

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

- Auvil, Myrtle

Best Quotes about Love

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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

Proverb, French

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

12.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

13.

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

Bacon, Francis

14.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

15.

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

Osgood, Samuel

16.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

17.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

18.

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

Jeanne Moreau

19.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

20.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

21.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

22.

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

23.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

24.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

25.

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

26.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

27.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

28.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

29.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

30.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

33.

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

34.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

35.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

36.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

DiFranco, Ani

38.

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

Martineau, Harriet

39.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

40.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

41.

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

42.

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

Auerbach, Red

43.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

44.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

45.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

46.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

47.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

48.

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

49.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

50.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato