Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

- Hirschfield, Mangnu

Best Quotes about Love

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

Brown, David

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

10.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

11.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

12.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

13.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

14.

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

Pythagoras

15.

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

Rowland, Helen

16.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

17.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

Buber, Martin

19.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

20.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

21.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

22.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

23.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

24.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

26.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

28.

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

29.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

30.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

31.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

32.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

33.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

34.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

35.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

36.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

37.

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.

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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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

40.

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

41.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

42.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

43.

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

44.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

45.

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

Bertrand Russell

46.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

49.

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

Proverb, French

50.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George