Motivational Quotes

Love

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Love

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

11.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

12.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

15.

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

16.

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

17.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

18.

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

19.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

21.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

22.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

23.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

24.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

25.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

26.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

27.

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

Rossetti, Christina

28.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

29.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

30.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

31.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

32.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

33.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

34.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

35.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

36.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

37.

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

DiFranco, Ani

38.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

39.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

41.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

43.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

44.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

45.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

46.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

47.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

48.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

49.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

50.

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