Motivational Quotes

Love

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Love

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Hertl, Nick

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

10.

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

11.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

12.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

13.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

14.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

15.

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

Bailey, Pearl

16.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

17.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

18.

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

19.

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

Levine, Stephen

20.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

21.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

22.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

23.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

24.

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

Jennifer Aniston

25.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

26.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

27.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

28.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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

30.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

31.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

32.

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

33.

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

John of the Cross, St.

34.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

36.

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

37.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

39.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

40.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

41.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

42.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

44.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

45.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

46.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

47.

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