Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

- Lynda Barry

Best Quotes about Love

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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

Jeph Jacques

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

10.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

12.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

13.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

15.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

16.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

17.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

18.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

21.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

22.

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

23.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

24.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

27.

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

28.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

29.

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

Bible

30.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

31.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

32.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

33.

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

Thurber, James

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.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

36.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

37.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

38.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

39.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

41.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

42.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

43.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

44.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

45.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

46.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

47.

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

Voltaire

48.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

50.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.