Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Love

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

William Shakespeare

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

10.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

12.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

13.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

14.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

15.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

16.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

17.

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

18.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

19.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

20.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

21.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

22.

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

Thurber, James

23.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

24.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

25.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

26.

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

27.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

28.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

29.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

30.

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

31.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

32.

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

Levine, Stephen

33.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

34.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

35.

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.

36.

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

Du Coeur

37.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

39.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

40.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

41.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

44.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

45.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

46.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

47.

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

Fox, Emmet

48.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

49.

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

Capote, Truman

50.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry