Motivational Quotes

Love

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

- Barthes, Roland

Best Quotes about Love

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

Osgood, Samuel

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

Croft, Roy

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

10.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

11.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

14.

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

15.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

16.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

17.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

18.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

24.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

25.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

26.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

28.

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

29.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

30.

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

31.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

32.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

33.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

34.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

35.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

36.

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

Paolo Giordano

37.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

39.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

40.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

41.

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

42.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

43.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

44.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

45.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.