Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Horton, Doug

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Swift, Jonathan

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

10.

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

11.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

12.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

13.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

14.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

15.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

16.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

17.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

18.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

19.

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.

20.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

21.

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

Proverb, Spanish

22.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

23.

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

Saltus, Edgar

24.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

25.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

26.

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

Bible

27.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

28.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

29.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

30.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

31.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

32.

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.

33.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

34.

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

35.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

36.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

37.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

38.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

39.

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

Toni Morrison

40.

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

41.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

42.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

43.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

44.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

45.

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

Sophocles

46.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

47.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

49.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

50.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale