Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

- Jerome, St.

Best Quotes about Love

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

13.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

14.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

15.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Voltaire

19.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

20.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

23.

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

Traherne, Thomas

24.

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

Anouilh, Jean

25.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

26.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

27.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

28.

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

29.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

31.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

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

33.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

34.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

35.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

36.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

37.

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

Rowland, Helen

38.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

39.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

40.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

41.

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

Bible

42.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

43.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

44.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

47.

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

48.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

49.

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.

50.

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