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

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

11.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

12.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

13.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

14.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

16.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

18.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

19.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

20.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

21.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

22.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

23.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

24.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

25.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

27.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

28.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

29.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

30.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Eucharista Ward

32.

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

Chambless, David

33.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

34.

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

Davis, Bette

35.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

36.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

37.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

40.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

41.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

42.

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

43.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

44.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

45.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

47.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

48.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

49.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

50.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De