Motivational Quotes

Love

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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

Charles M. Schulz

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

Carmichael, Amy

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

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

11.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

12.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

13.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

Rowland, Helen

15.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

16.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

17.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

18.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

21.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

22.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

23.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

24.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

25.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

26.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

27.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

28.

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

29.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

30.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

31.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

33.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

34.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

35.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

36.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

37.

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

38.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

39.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

40.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

41.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

42.

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

David Viscott

43.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

44.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

45.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

47.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

48.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

49.

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

50.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith