Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Paolo Giordano

Best Quotes about Love

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerome, St.

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

10.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

11.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

12.

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

13.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

14.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

15.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

16.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

17.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

18.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

20.

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

Tomlin, Lily

21.

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

22.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

23.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

24.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

25.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

27.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

28.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

29.

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

30.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

31.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

32.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

33.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

34.

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

James, William

35.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

36.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

38.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

40.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

41.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

42.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

43.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

44.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Hay, Louise L.

46.

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.

47.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

48.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

49.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

50.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug