Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Love

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Mcdonald, George

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Richardson, Nick

15.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

17.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

18.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

19.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

20.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

21.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Capote, Truman

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

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

Ovid

26.

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.

27.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

28.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

29.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

30.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

31.

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

Toni Morrison

32.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

33.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

34.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

35.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

36.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

37.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

38.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

39.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

40.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

41.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

43.

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

44.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

45.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

46.

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

Duffy, Maureen

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.