Motivational Quotes

Love

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

- Neruda, Pablo

Best Quotes about Love

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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

Hugo, Victor

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

11.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

12.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

14.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

15.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

16.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

19.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

20.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

21.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

22.

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

23.

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

Bible

24.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

28.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

29.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Bible

31.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

32.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

33.

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

34.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

37.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

40.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Meredith, George

42.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

43.

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

44.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

45.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

46.

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

Rossetti, Christina

47.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

48.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

49.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

50.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare