Motivational Quotes

Love

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Best Quotes about Love

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

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Fromm, Erich

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

10.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

11.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

12.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

13.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

14.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

15.

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

Seneca

16.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

17.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

20.

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

21.

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

National Lampoon

22.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

23.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

24.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

25.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

26.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

27.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

29.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

30.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

31.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

32.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

33.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

34.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

35.

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

36.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

37.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

38.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

39.

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

Pythagoras

40.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

41.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

42.

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

Duffy, Maureen

43.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

44.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

45.

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

Buber, Martin

46.

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

Hertl, Nick

47.

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

48.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

49.

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

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