Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

William Shakespeare

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

10.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

11.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

12.

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

Augustine, St.

13.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

14.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

15.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

16.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

17.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

18.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

19.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

20.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

21.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

22.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

23.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

24.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

25.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

28.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

29.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

30.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

31.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

34.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

35.

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

Eucharista Ward

36.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

37.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

38.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

43.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

44.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

45.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

46.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

47.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

48.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

49.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

50.

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.