Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

- Northern Exposure

Best Quotes about Love

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

10.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

11.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

12.

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.

13.

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

Carmichael, Amy

14.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

15.

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

16.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

17.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

18.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

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

Murdoch, Iris

20.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

21.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

22.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

23.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

24.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

25.

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

Brown, David

26.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

29.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

30.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

31.

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.

32.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

33.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

34.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

35.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

36.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

37.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

38.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

39.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

40.

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

41.

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

DiFranco, Ani

42.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

43.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

44.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

45.

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

46.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

47.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

48.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

49.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

50.

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