Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Love

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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

10.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

11.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

12.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

13.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

15.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

18.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

19.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

21.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

22.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

23.

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.

24.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

27.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

28.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

29.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

30.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

31.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

32.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

33.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

34.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

35.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

36.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

37.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

38.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

39.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

40.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

41.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

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

Scherer, Paul

43.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

44.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

45.

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

46.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

47.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

48.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

49.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

50.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril