Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Levine, Stephen

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

10.

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

11.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

12.

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

13.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

14.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

15.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

16.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

17.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

18.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

19.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

20.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

21.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

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

Verse, A Haiku

23.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

26.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

27.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

28.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

29.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

30.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

31.

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

Carmichael, Amy

32.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

33.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

34.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

35.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

36.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

37.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

38.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

39.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

40.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

41.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

44.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

45.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

46.

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

Proverb

47.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

48.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

49.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

50.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian