Motivational Quotes

Love

We live in the world when we love it.

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

11.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

12.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

14.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

15.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

16.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

17.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

19.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

20.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

21.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

22.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

23.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

24.

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

25.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

26.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

28.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

29.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

30.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

31.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

32.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

33.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

36.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

38.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

39.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

40.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

41.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

42.

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

43.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

44.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

45.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

46.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

47.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

49.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

50.

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