Motivational Quotes

Love

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

- Southey, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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

Turner, Ted

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

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

10.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

11.

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

12.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

13.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

14.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

15.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

17.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

18.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

19.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

20.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

21.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

22.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

26.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

27.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

28.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

29.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

30.

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

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

33.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

34.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

35.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

36.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

37.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

38.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

39.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

40.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

41.

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

42.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

43.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

44.

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

Proverb, French

45.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

46.

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.