Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Love

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

10.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

12.

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

13.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

16.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

17.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

18.

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.

Spencer, Herbert

19.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

20.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

21.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

22.

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

Anderson, Margaret

23.

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

Aristotle

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

26.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

27.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

28.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

29.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

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

31.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

32.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

33.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

34.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

37.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

38.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

39.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

40.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

41.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

42.

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.

43.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

44.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

45.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

46.

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