Motivational Quotes

Love

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Meredith, George

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

10.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

11.

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

Carroll, Pat

12.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

13.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

14.

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.

15.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

16.

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

Sophocles

17.

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

18.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

19.

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

Carmichael, Amy

20.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

21.

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

Alan Watts

22.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

23.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

24.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

25.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

26.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

27.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

29.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

30.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

31.

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

32.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

33.

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

34.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

35.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

36.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

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

38.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

39.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

40.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

41.

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

42.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

43.

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

Jeph Jacques

44.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

48.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

49.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

50.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry