Motivational Quotes

Love

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

- Williams, Tennessee

Best Quotes about Love

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

10.

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

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

12.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

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

Chambless, David

15.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

16.

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

17.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

18.

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

Toni Morrison

19.

'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

20.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

21.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

22.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

23.

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

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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

25.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

26.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

27.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

28.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

29.

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

30.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

32.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

34.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

35.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

38.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

39.

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

40.

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

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

42.

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

43.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

44.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

45.

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

46.

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

Osgood, Samuel

47.

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

Proverb, Jewish

48.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

49.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

50.

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