Motivational Quotes

Love

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

- Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Best Quotes about Love

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

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

10.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

11.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

12.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

13.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

14.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

15.

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

Buber, Martin

16.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

17.

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

18.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

19.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

21.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

22.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

23.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

24.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

26.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

27.

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

28.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

29.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

30.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

31.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

32.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

33.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

34.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

35.

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

Davis, Bette

36.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

37.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

38.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

40.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

41.

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

42.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

43.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Elizabeth Aston

45.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

46.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

47.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

48.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

49.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

50.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand