Motivational Quotes

Love

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

- David Viscott

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

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

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Hugo, Victor

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

10.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

11.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

12.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

13.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

14.

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

15.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

16.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

17.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

18.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

19.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

23.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

24.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

25.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

26.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

27.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

28.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

29.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

30.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

31.

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

32.

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

Crawford, Joan

33.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

34.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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

Swift, Jonathan

36.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

37.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

38.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

39.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

40.

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

41.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

42.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

43.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Mother Teresa

45.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

46.

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

47.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

49.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

50.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David