Motivational Quotes

Love

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

- Tebbets, Frank

Best Quotes about Love

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

10.

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

11.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

12.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

13.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

14.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

15.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Euripides

17.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

18.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

19.

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

Byron, Lord

20.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

22.

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

Reik, Theodor

23.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

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

25.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

26.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

28.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

29.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

30.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

31.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

35.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

36.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

37.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

38.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

40.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

41.

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

42.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

43.

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

44.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

45.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

46.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

47.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

48.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

DiFranco, Ani

50.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe