Motivational Quotes

Love

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Love

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

10.

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

11.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

12.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

13.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

14.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

15.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

16.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

19.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

20.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

22.

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

23.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

24.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

25.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

26.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

27.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

28.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Ovid

30.

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

Tracy, Brian

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

33.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

34.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

35.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

36.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

37.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

38.

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

39.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

40.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

41.

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

42.

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

Toni Morrison

43.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

45.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

46.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

47.

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