Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

10.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

11.

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

Disney, Walt

12.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

13.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

14.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

15.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

16.

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

17.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

18.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

19.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

20.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

21.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

24.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

26.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

27.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

28.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

29.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

30.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

31.

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

32.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

33.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

34.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

35.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

37.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

38.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

39.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

40.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

41.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

42.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

43.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

44.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

45.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

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