Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Francis of Assisi, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

10.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

11.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

12.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

13.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

14.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

15.

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

Barry, Lynda

16.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

17.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

18.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

19.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

20.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

21.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

22.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

23.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

24.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

26.

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

27.

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

28.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

29.

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

30.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

31.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

32.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

33.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

34.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

35.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

38.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

39.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

44.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

45.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

46.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

47.

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

Dryden, John

48.

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

49.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

50.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug