Motivational Quotes

Love

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Love

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

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

10.

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

11.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

12.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

13.

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

Toni Morrison

14.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

15.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

16.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

18.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

21.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

22.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

23.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

24.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

25.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

26.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

28.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

29.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

30.

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

Bible

31.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

32.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

33.

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

Paolo Giordano

34.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

35.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

36.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

37.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

38.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

39.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

40.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

41.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

43.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

44.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

45.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

46.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

47.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

48.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

49.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.