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

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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

William Shakespeare

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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

William Shakespeare

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

10.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

11.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

14.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

15.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

16.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

17.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

18.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

William Shakespeare

20.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

21.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

22.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

23.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

24.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

25.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

27.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

28.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

29.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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

32.

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

33.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

34.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

35.

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

Peguy, Charles

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

37.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

39.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

40.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

41.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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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

43.

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

44.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

45.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace