Motivational Quotes

Love

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

- Upanishads, Veda

Best Quotes about Love

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.

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

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Buber, Martin

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

10.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

11.

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

Ovid

12.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

13.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

14.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

15.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

17.

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

Murdoch, Iris

18.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

19.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

20.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

21.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

22.

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

Byron, Lord

23.

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

24.

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

Mcdonald, George

25.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

26.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

27.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

28.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

29.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

30.

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

Sand, George

31.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

32.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

34.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

35.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

36.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

37.

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

38.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

39.

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

National Lampoon

40.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

41.

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

42.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

43.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

44.

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

45.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

46.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

47.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

48.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

49.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

50.

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