Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

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.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

10.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

11.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

12.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

13.

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

Bourget, Paul

14.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

16.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

17.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

18.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

20.

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

Eucharista Ward

21.

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

22.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

23.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

24.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

28.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

29.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

30.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

31.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

32.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

33.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

36.

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

Hay, Louise L.

37.

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

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

40.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

41.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

42.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

43.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

44.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

45.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

46.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

47.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

48.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

49.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

50.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De