Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Blanton, Smiley

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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

Brookner, Anita

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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

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

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

10.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

11.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

12.

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

13.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

14.

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

Chambless, David

15.

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

16.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

17.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

18.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

19.

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

Fromm, Erich

20.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

Rita Rudner

22.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

25.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

26.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

27.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

28.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

29.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

30.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

31.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

32.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

34.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

35.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

36.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

37.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

38.

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

39.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

40.

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

41.

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

Wilde, Oscar

42.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

45.

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

Murdoch, Iris

46.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

47.

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

Hertl, Nick

48.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

49.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

50.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell