Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Du Coeur

Best Quotes about Love

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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

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

Blanton, Smiley

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

10.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

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

Aristotle

12.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

13.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

14.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

16.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

17.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

18.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

19.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

21.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

24.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

25.

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

Wilde, Oscar

26.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Diane Ackerman

28.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

29.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

30.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

32.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

33.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

34.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

35.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

36.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

37.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

38.

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

39.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

40.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

41.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

42.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

43.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

44.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

48.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

49.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

50.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward