Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Aragon, Louis

10.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

11.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

12.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

13.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

14.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

15.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

16.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

17.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

18.

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.

19.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

21.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

22.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

23.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

24.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

25.

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

Anouilh, Jean

26.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

27.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

28.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

29.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

30.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

34.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

35.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

36.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

37.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

38.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

39.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

40.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

41.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

42.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

43.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

44.

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

45.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

47.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

49.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

50.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.