Motivational Quotes

Love

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Love

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

Swift, Jonathan

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.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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

Charles M. Schulz

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

10.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

11.

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

Proust, Marcel

12.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

13.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

15.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

16.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

18.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

19.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

20.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

21.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

22.

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

Blanton, Smiley

23.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

24.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

25.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

26.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

27.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

28.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

30.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

31.

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

32.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

33.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

36.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

38.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

39.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

40.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

41.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

42.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

43.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

44.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

45.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

46.

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

Ferry, Brian

47.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

48.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

49.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

50.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren