Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

- Davis, Bette

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

10.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

11.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

12.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

13.

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

14.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

18.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

19.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

21.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

22.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

23.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

24.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

25.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

26.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

30.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

31.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

32.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

33.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

34.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

35.

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

36.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

37.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

38.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

39.

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.

40.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

41.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

42.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

43.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

47.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

48.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

49.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

50.

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