Motivational Quotes

Love

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Love

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

David Viscott

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

10.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

11.

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

John Sheffield

12.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

13.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

14.

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

15.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

16.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

17.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

18.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

19.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

20.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

21.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

22.

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.

23.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

24.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

25.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

26.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

27.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

28.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

29.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

30.

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

31.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

32.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

33.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Alan Watts

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

38.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

39.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

40.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

41.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

44.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.