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

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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

Bertrand Russell

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

10.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

11.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

12.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Bible

14.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

15.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

16.

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

Dickinson, Emily

17.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

18.

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

19.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

23.

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

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

26.

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

27.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

28.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

29.

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

30.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

33.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

34.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

35.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

36.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

37.

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

Capote, Truman

38.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

39.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

40.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

41.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

42.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

43.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

44.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

46.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

47.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

48.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

49.

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

Law, William

50.

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