Motivational Quotes

Love

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Love

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Brown, Rita Mae

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

10.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Aragon, Louis

12.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

13.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

14.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

15.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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.

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

Margaret Cho

18.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

19.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

20.

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

Rita Rudner

21.

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.

22.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

23.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

27.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

Toni Morrison

29.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

30.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

31.

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

West, Mae

32.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

33.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

34.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

35.

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

36.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

39.

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

40.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

41.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

42.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

44.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

45.

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

46.

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

Jeph Jacques

47.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

48.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

49.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

50.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund