Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

- Rabbi Julius Gordon

Best Quotes about Love

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

10.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

11.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

12.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

13.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

15.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

16.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

17.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

18.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

19.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

20.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

21.

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

Sophocles

22.

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

23.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

24.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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

26.

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

Horton, Doug

27.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

28.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

30.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

31.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

35.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

36.

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.

37.

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

Randy K. Milholland

38.

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

39.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

40.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

41.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

44.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

45.

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

Smith, Sydney

46.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

49.

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

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost