Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

- Parker, Dorothy

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.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

10.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

11.

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

Murdoch, Iris

12.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

13.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

14.

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

15.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

17.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

18.

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.

19.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

21.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

22.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

23.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

25.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

26.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

27.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

28.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

29.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

30.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

31.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

32.

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

Heinlein, Robert

33.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

34.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

35.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

36.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

37.

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

38.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

39.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

40.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

45.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

47.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

48.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

49.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

50.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van