Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

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

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Menninger, Karl A.

10.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

11.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

12.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

13.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

14.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

15.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

17.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

18.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

19.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

20.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

24.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

25.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

26.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

27.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

28.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

29.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

30.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

33.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

34.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

35.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

36.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

37.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

38.

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

Scherer, Paul

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

42.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

43.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

44.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

45.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

46.

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

47.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov