Motivational Quotes

Love

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Love

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

William Shakespeare

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

10.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

11.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

13.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

14.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

15.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Osgood, Samuel

20.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

21.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

22.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

23.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

24.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

27.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

28.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

29.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

32.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

34.

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

35.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

36.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

37.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

38.

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

39.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

40.

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

Julie Morgenstern

41.

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

Bette Davis

42.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

43.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

44.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

45.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

46.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

47.

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

Toni Morrison

48.

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

Hertl, Nick

49.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

50.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.