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 only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

Brown, David

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

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Hertl, Nick

10.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

11.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

12.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

13.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

14.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

16.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

17.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

18.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

19.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

20.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

21.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

22.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

23.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

24.

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

25.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

26.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

28.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

29.

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

Randy K. Milholland

30.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

33.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

34.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

37.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

38.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

39.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

40.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

41.

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

42.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

43.

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

Bourget, Paul

44.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

45.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

46.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

47.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

48.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

49.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

50.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord