Motivational Quotes

Love

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Love

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

10.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

12.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

13.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

14.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

16.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

17.

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

18.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

19.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

20.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

21.

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

22.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

24.

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

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

27.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

28.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

29.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

30.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

31.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

32.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

33.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

34.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

35.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

36.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

37.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

38.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

39.

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

Hay, Louise L.

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

42.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

43.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

44.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

45.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

46.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

47.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

48.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

49.

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

Buddha

50.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal