Motivational Quotes

Love

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

- Catullus

Best Quotes about Love

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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

Pilgrim, Peace

10.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

11.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

15.

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.

16.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

17.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

18.

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

19.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

21.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

22.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

23.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

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

Pavese, Cesare

25.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

26.

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

27.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

28.

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

Federman, Irwin

29.

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

Michael Patrick King

30.

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

31.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

32.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

33.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

34.

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

Sand, George

35.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

36.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

37.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

38.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

39.

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

40.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

41.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

42.

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

43.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

44.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

45.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

46.

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

Reik, Theodor

47.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

48.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

49.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

50.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De