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, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

10.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

11.

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

12.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

13.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

14.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

15.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

16.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

17.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

18.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

20.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

21.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

22.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

23.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

24.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

26.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

27.

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

28.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

29.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

30.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

31.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

32.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

35.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

36.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

37.

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

38.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

40.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

41.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

42.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

43.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

46.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

47.

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

48.

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

Bible

49.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

50.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich