Motivational Quotes

Love

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

- Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Federman, Irwin

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

10.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

13.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

14.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

15.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

16.

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

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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.

18.

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

19.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

20.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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

Smith, Sydney

22.

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

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

26.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

27.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

28.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

29.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

30.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

31.

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

32.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

33.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Reik, Theodor

36.

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

37.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

38.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

39.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

40.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

41.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

42.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

43.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

44.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.