Motivational Quotes

Love

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Love

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

W. Somerset Maugham

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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

Proverb, French

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

10.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

11.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

12.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

13.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

14.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

15.

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

16.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

17.

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

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

20.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

21.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

22.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

23.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

26.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

27.

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

28.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

29.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

30.

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

31.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

32.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

33.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

34.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

35.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

36.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

37.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

38.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

39.

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

Verse, A Haiku

40.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

41.

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

Anouilh, Jean

42.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

43.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

44.

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

45.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Ice T

49.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

50.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De