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

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

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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

Peter Ustinov

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

10.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

11.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

12.

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

Anouilh, Jean

13.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

14.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

15.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

19.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

20.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

21.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

22.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

23.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

24.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

25.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

26.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

28.

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

29.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

31.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

33.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

34.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

37.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

38.

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

39.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

40.

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

41.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

42.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

43.

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

44.

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

Rossetti, Christina

45.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

46.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

50.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund