Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

10.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

11.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

12.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

13.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

14.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

15.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

16.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

17.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

19.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

20.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

22.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

26.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

27.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

28.

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

Toni Morrison

29.

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

30.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

32.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

33.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

34.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Fromm, Erich

38.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

Byron, Lord

40.

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

41.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

42.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

43.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

45.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

46.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

47.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

48.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

49.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

50.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van