Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Lawrence, D. H.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Rossetti, Christina

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

10.

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

William Penn

11.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

12.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

13.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

14.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

15.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

16.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

17.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

19.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

21.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

22.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

23.

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

25.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

26.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

27.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

28.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

29.

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.

30.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

33.

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

Horton, Doug

34.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

35.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

36.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

37.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

38.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

39.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

40.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

41.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

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

44.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

45.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

46.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

47.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.