Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Charles M. Schulz

Best Quotes about Love

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

Augustine, St.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

10.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

11.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

14.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

15.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

16.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

17.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

21.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

22.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

24.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

25.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

26.

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

Donne, John

27.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Rossetti, Christina

29.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

30.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Bailey, Pearl

33.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

34.

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

Williams, William Carlos

35.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

36.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

38.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

39.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

40.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

41.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

43.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

46.

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.

47.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

48.

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

Shakespeare, William

49.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

50.

The hottest love has the coldest end.