Motivational Quotes

Love

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Love

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

10.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

15.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Behn, Aphra

17.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

18.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

19.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

20.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

21.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

22.

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

23.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

24.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

25.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

26.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

27.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

28.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

31.

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

Hugo, Victor

32.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

33.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

34.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

37.

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

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

39.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

40.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

41.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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

Carroll, Pat

44.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

45.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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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

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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

49.

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

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

Crawford, Joan