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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

10.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

12.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

13.

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

Hertl, Nick

14.

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

15.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

16.

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

17.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

20.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

21.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

22.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

23.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

24.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

26.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

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

28.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

29.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

30.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

32.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

33.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, French

36.

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

Proverb

37.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

38.

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

39.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

41.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

42.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

43.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

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

45.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

46.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

47.

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

Ovid

48.

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

49.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

50.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De