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 looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

10.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

11.

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

Elizabeth Aston

12.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

13.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

16.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

17.

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.

18.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

20.

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

21.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

22.

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

Hay, Louise L.

23.

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

Fox, Emmet

24.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

25.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

26.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

28.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

29.

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

Pythagoras

30.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

31.

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

Burton, Robert

32.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

33.

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

Capote, Truman

34.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

35.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

36.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

37.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

38.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

39.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

40.

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

Rossetti, Christina

41.

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

Rowland, Helen

42.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

43.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

44.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

45.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

46.

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

47.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

48.

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

Kempis, Thomas

49.

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

Alan Watts

50.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.