Motivational Quotes

Love

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Love

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

Hertl, Nick

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Steinfeld, Jake

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

10.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

11.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

12.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

13.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

14.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

15.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

16.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

18.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Jeanne Moreau

20.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

22.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

23.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

24.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

25.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

26.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

27.

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

28.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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.

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

31.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

32.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

33.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

34.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

36.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

37.

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

38.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

39.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

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

Sophocles

42.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

43.

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

44.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

45.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

46.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

47.

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

48.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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