Motivational Quotes

Love

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Love

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Harrigan, John

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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

Lennon, John

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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

Sophocles

10.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

11.

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

Erica Jong

12.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

13.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

14.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

15.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

16.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

17.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

18.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

19.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

20.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

26.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

27.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

28.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

29.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

30.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

31.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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

Updike, John

33.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

34.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

35.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

36.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

37.

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

Duras, Marguerite

38.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

39.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

40.

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

41.

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

42.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

44.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

45.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

48.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

49.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

50.

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