Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Borges, Jorge Luis

Best Quotes about Love

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

10.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

11.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

13.

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

14.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

15.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

16.

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

17.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

18.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

19.

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

20.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

21.

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

22.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

23.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

24.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

26.

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

27.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

28.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

29.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

30.

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

Federman, Irwin

31.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

32.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

33.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

34.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

36.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

37.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

38.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

40.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

41.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

42.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

43.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

44.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

45.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

46.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

47.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

48.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

49.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

50.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare