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

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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

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

Jean Anouilh

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

10.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

11.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

12.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

13.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

17.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

18.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

19.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

20.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

21.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

22.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

24.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

Bible

26.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

27.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

28.

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

29.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

30.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

31.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

32.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

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

Ovid

34.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

35.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

36.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

37.

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

Groening, Matt

38.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

39.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

40.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

41.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

42.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

43.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

Auerbach, Red

45.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

46.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

47.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

48.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

49.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

50.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.