Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Leunig, Michael

Best Quotes about Love

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Duffy, Maureen

10.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

11.

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

12.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

13.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

14.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

15.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

16.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

17.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

18.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

19.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

21.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

22.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

24.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

25.

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

Reik, Theodor

26.

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

27.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

28.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

29.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

30.

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

31.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

32.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

33.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

34.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

35.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

36.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

37.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

38.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

39.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

40.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

41.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

42.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

43.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

45.

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

Rossetti, Christina

46.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

47.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

48.

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

Victor Hugo

49.

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

50.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.