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

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

12.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

13.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

14.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

15.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

16.

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

17.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

18.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

19.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

20.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

21.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

22.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

23.

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

Anouilh, Jean

24.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

25.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

26.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

27.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

29.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

30.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

31.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

32.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

33.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

34.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

Tomlin, Lily

36.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

37.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

38.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

41.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

42.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

43.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

44.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

45.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

46.

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

Margaret Cho

47.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

49.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

50.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos