Motivational Quotes

Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

- Iris Murdoch

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

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

Plato

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

10.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

14.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

16.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

17.

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

18.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

19.

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

Burton, Robert

20.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

22.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

23.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

24.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

25.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

26.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

30.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

31.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

32.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

33.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

34.

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

35.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

36.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

37.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

38.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

39.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

40.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

41.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

42.

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

Toni Morrison

43.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

44.

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

Bible

45.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

46.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

47.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

48.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

49.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

50.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette