Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the river of life in the world.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Love

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

10.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

11.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

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

Rowland, Helen

13.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

14.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

15.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

16.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

17.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

18.

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

19.

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

Meredith, George

20.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

21.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

22.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

23.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

24.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

25.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

26.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

27.

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

28.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

29.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

30.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

Southey, Robert

32.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

33.

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

Bible

34.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

35.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

36.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

37.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

38.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

41.

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

42.

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

Parker, Dorothy

43.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

45.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

46.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

50.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.