Motivational Quotes

Love

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Love

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

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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 river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

10.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

11.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

12.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

13.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

15.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

16.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

17.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

18.

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

19.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

20.

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

21.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

23.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

24.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

25.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

26.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

27.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

28.

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

29.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

30.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

31.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

32.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

33.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

34.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

35.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

36.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

37.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

38.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

39.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

40.

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

Euripides

41.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

42.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

43.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

44.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

45.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

46.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.