Motivational Quotes

Love

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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

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

Fromm, Erich

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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

Hazlitt, William

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

10.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

11.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

12.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

13.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

14.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

15.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

16.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

17.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

18.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

19.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

20.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

21.

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

22.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

23.

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

24.

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

Bourget, Paul

25.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

26.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

27.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

28.

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

Carl Jung

29.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

30.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

31.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

32.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

39.

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

Turner, Ted

40.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

41.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

42.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

43.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

44.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

45.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

46.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

47.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

48.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

49.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

50.

Be that self which one truly is.