Motivational Quotes

Love

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

- Duras, Marguerite

Best Quotes about Love

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

10.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

11.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

12.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

17.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

19.

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

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

22.

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

23.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

24.

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

25.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

26.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

27.

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

28.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

29.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

30.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

31.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

32.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

33.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

34.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

35.

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

36.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

37.

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

38.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

39.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

40.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

43.

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

Aragon, Louis

44.

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

Anouilh, Jean

45.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

48.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

49.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

50.

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