Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Real Live Preacher

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Croft, Roy

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

11.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

12.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

14.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

15.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

17.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

18.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

19.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

22.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

28.

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

29.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

30.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

31.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

32.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

33.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

34.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

35.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

36.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

37.

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

38.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

39.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

40.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

41.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

42.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

44.

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

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.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

47.

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

Rita Rudner

48.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.