Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Guthrie, Arlo

Best Quotes about Love

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

William Shakespeare

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

10.

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

Proverb, Japanese

11.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

12.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

13.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

14.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

18.

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

19.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

20.

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

21.

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

Fromm, Erich

22.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

23.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

24.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

26.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

27.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

28.

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

29.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

30.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

31.

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

Peguy, Charles

32.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

33.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

37.

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.

38.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

39.

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

40.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

41.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

42.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

43.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

44.

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

Meredith, George

45.

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

Swift, Jonathan

46.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

47.

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

48.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

49.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

50.

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