Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Sand, George

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

Taylor, Jeremy

10.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

12.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

14.

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

Carl Jung

15.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

16.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

17.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

18.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

20.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

21.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

22.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

23.

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

Euripides

24.

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

Scherer, Paul

25.

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

26.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

27.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

28.

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

29.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

33.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

34.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

35.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

36.

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

Randy K. Milholland

37.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

38.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

39.

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

40.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

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

Jeanne Moreau

42.

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

43.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

44.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

45.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

46.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

47.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

48.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

49.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

50.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.