Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Best Quotes about Love

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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

10.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

12.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

13.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

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

Bailey, Pearl

15.

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

16.

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

Fromm, Erich

17.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

18.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

19.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

20.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

21.

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

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

24.

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

25.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

26.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

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

John of the Cross, St.

28.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

29.

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

Horton, Doug

30.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

31.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

32.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

33.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

34.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

35.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

36.

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

37.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

41.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

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.

43.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

44.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

45.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

46.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

47.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

48.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

49.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

50.

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

Buscaglia, Leo