Motivational Quotes

Love

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

- Szasz, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Byron, Lord

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

10.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

14.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

15.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

17.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

18.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

19.

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

Ovid

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

23.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

24.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

25.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

28.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

29.

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

Bible

30.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

31.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

32.

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

Bertrand Russell

33.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

34.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

37.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

38.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

39.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

40.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

41.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

42.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

43.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

44.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

45.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

46.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

47.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

48.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

49.

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

50.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De