Motivational Quotes

Love

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

- Saltus, Edgar

Best Quotes about Love

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

10.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

11.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

12.

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

Proverb

13.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

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

15.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

16.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

17.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

18.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

19.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

20.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

21.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

22.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

23.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

24.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

25.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

26.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

27.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

28.

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

Proust, Marcel

29.

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

30.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

31.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

32.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

33.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

34.

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

35.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

36.

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

37.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

38.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

39.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

41.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

42.

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

43.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

44.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

45.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

46.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

47.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

48.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

49.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

50.

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