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

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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

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

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

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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

William Shakespeare

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

10.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

11.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

12.

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

Proverb, Irish

13.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

14.

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

15.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

16.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

17.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

18.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

19.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

20.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

21.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

22.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

23.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

24.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

25.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

26.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

27.

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

James, William

28.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

29.

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

30.

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

32.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

34.

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

35.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

36.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

37.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

38.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

39.

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

Wilde, Kim

40.

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

John Sheffield

41.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

42.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

43.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

44.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

45.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

46.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

47.

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

48.

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

Brown, David

49.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

50.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel