Motivational Quotes

Love

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

- Duras, Marguerite

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

10.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

12.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

13.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

14.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

15.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

16.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

19.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

20.

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

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Jennifer Aniston

23.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

24.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

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

Mencken, H. L.

27.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

28.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

29.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

30.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

31.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

32.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

33.

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

34.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

35.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

36.

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

37.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

38.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

39.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

40.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

41.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

42.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

43.

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

Disney, Walt

44.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

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

46.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

47.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

48.

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

49.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

50.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare