Motivational Quotes

Love

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

- Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Best Quotes about Love

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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

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

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

10.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

11.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

12.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

13.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

14.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

15.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

16.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

17.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

18.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

19.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

20.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

21.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

22.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

23.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

24.

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.

25.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

26.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

28.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

29.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

30.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

31.

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

Leunig, Michael

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

35.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

36.

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

William Penn

37.

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

Toni Morrison

38.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

39.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

40.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

41.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

42.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

43.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

44.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

45.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

46.

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

Laing, R. D.

47.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.