Motivational Quotes

Love

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Love

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

James, William

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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.

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

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

10.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

13.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

16.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

17.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

18.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

19.

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

20.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Bible

22.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

23.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

24.

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

25.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

26.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

27.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

28.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

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

Confucius

30.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

31.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

32.

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

33.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

34.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Mcdonald, George

36.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

37.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

38.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

39.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

40.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

42.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

43.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

46.

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

47.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

48.

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

49.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

50.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert