Motivational Quotes

Love

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

10.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

12.

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

13.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

14.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

15.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

16.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

18.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

19.

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

20.

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

Laing, R. D.

21.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

22.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

23.

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

Heinlein, Robert

24.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

25.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

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

27.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Parker, Dorothy

29.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

30.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

31.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

32.

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

Wilkerson, David

33.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

34.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

35.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

36.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

37.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

38.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

39.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

40.

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

Anderson, Margaret

41.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

42.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

43.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

44.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

45.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

49.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

50.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare