Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Love

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.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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 seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

10.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

11.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

13.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

14.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

15.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

16.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

17.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

18.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

19.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

22.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

23.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

25.

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

Nathan, George Jean

26.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

27.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

28.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

30.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Lennon, John

33.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

34.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

35.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

36.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

37.

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

38.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

39.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

40.

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

41.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

42.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

43.

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

44.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

45.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

48.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

49.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

50.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.