Motivational Quotes

Love

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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

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

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Du Coeur

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

10.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

11.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

12.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

13.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

14.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

15.

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

Mother Teresa

16.

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

17.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

18.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

19.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

20.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

21.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

23.

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

24.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

25.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

26.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

27.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

28.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

29.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

30.

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

Scott Westerfeld

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

33.

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

34.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

35.

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

Proverb

36.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

37.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

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.

40.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

42.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

43.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

44.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

45.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

46.

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

Thurber, James

47.

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

48.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

49.

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.

50.

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

William Shakespeare