Motivational Quotes

Love

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

11.

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

Elizabeth Aston

12.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

13.

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

14.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

15.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

16.

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

17.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

18.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

19.

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

20.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

21.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

22.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

23.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

26.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

27.

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

28.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

29.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

30.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

31.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

32.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

33.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

34.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

35.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

36.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

37.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

39.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

44.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

45.

We love because it's the only true adventure.