Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Love

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

Chambless, David

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Brooke, Rupert

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

10.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

11.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

12.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

15.

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

16.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

17.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

19.

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

Byron, Lord

20.

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

21.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Law, William

23.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

24.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

25.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

26.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

30.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

31.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

32.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

33.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

36.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

37.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

38.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

40.

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

41.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

42.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

43.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

44.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

45.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

46.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

47.

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

48.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

49.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

50.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.