Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Southey, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

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

Toni Morrison

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

Byron, Lord

10.

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.

11.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

12.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

13.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

14.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

15.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

16.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

17.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

18.

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

19.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

20.

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

Leunig, Michael

21.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

22.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

23.

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

24.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

25.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

26.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

27.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

28.

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

Donne, John

29.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

30.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

31.

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

Du Coeur

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

35.

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

36.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

37.

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

38.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

39.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

William Penn

42.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

45.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

46.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

47.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

48.

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

49.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van