Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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

Taylor, Jeremy

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

William Shakespeare

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

10.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

11.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

12.

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

13.

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

Proust, Marcel

14.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

15.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

17.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

18.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

19.

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

Peguy, Charles

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

23.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

26.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

27.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

28.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

29.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

30.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

31.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

32.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

33.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

34.

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

35.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

36.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

37.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

38.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

39.

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

40.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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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

42.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

43.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

44.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

45.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

46.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

47.

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

48.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

49.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

50.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary