Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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

West, Mae

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

DiFranco, Ani

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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

Buber, Martin

10.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

11.

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

Heinlein, Robert

12.

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

13.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

14.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

15.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

16.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

17.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Martineau, Harriet

19.

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

20.

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

21.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

22.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

24.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

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

Barry, Lynda

26.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

33.

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

Michael Patrick King

34.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

37.

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

38.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

39.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

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

41.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

42.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

43.

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

44.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

45.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

46.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

47.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.