Motivational Quotes

Love

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Love

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

10.

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

11.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

12.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

13.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

14.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

16.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

17.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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

19.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

20.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Plato

22.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

23.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

24.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

25.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

26.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

27.

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

James, William

28.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

29.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

31.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

32.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

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

34.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

35.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

36.

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

37.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

38.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

39.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

40.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

41.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

44.

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

Sarton, May

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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

46.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

47.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

48.

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

Hugo, Victor

49.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

50.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe