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 is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

10.

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

Thurber, James

11.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

12.

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

13.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

Capote, Truman

15.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

16.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

17.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

19.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

20.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

21.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

24.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

27.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

28.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

29.

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

Sand, George

30.

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

Toni Morrison

31.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

32.

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

Bertrand Russell

33.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Bible

37.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

38.

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

39.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

40.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

41.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

42.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

43.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

44.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

45.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

47.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

48.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

49.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

50.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare