Motivational Quotes

Love

True love is the parent of humility.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Love

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

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

Charles M. Schulz

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

Kempis, Thomas

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

11.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

12.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

13.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

DiFranco, Ani

15.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

16.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

18.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

19.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

20.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

21.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

22.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

23.

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

24.

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

25.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

27.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

28.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

29.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

30.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

31.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

32.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

33.

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

Turner, Ted

34.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

35.

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

36.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

37.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

38.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

40.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

41.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

42.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

43.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

45.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

47.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

48.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

49.

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

Seneca

50.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David