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

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

William Shakespeare

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Rossetti, Christina

10.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

11.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

12.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

14.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

15.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

17.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

19.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

20.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

21.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

22.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

23.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

24.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

25.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

26.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

27.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

31.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

33.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

37.

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

38.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

39.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

41.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

45.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

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

47.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

48.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

50.

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

James, William