Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Peguy, Charles

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

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

11.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

12.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

13.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

14.

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

Harrigan, John

15.

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.

16.

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

Capote, Truman

17.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

18.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

19.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

20.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

21.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

26.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

28.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

29.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

30.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

31.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

32.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

33.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

34.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

35.

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

36.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

37.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

38.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

39.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Murdoch, Iris

42.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

43.

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

44.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

45.

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

Thurber, James

46.

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

Federman, Irwin

47.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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

49.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

50.

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