Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a serious mental disease.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Love

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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

Leunig, Michael

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

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

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

12.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

13.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

14.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

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

Connolly, Cyril

16.

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

17.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

21.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

22.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

23.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

24.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

25.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

26.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

27.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

28.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

29.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

30.

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

Proverb, French

31.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

32.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

33.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

34.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

35.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

36.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

37.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

41.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

42.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

43.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

45.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

46.

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

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

49.

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

Proverb

50.

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