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

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

Sand, George

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

William Shakespeare

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

10.

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

11.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

12.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

16.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

17.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

18.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

19.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

22.

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

Buber, Martin

23.

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

Charles M. Schulz

24.

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

Bridges, Robert

25.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

26.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

27.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

28.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

29.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Verse, A Haiku

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

34.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

35.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

36.

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

37.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

38.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

39.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

40.

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.

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

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

43.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

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

Ackerman, Diane

45.

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

46.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

47.

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

Donne, John

48.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.