Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Scott Westerfeld

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

13.

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

Updike, John

14.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

15.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

16.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

17.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

18.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

20.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

21.

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

Pascal, Blaise

22.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

23.

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

24.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

25.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

26.

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

27.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

28.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

29.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

30.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

31.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

32.

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

33.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

34.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

35.

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

36.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

37.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

38.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

39.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

40.

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

41.

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

Anouilh, Jean

42.

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

43.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

44.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

45.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

46.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.