Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

- Rossner, Judith

Best Quotes about Love

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Plato

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Michael Patrick King

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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

Capote, Truman

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

10.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

11.

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

Pascal, Blaise

12.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

13.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

14.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

16.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

17.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

18.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

19.

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

Osgood, Samuel

20.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

21.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

22.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

23.

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

24.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

25.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

26.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

27.

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

28.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

29.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

30.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

34.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

36.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

37.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

38.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

39.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

40.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

41.

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

Leunig, Michael

42.

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

Margaret Cho

43.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

45.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

46.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

47.

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

48.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

49.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

50.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts