Motivational Quotes

Love

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

- Federman, Irwin

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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

Proverb, Japanese

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

10.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

11.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

12.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

13.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

14.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

15.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

17.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

18.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

19.

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

20.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

21.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

22.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

23.

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

24.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

25.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

30.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

31.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

32.

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

33.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

34.

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

35.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Nathan, George Jean

37.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

38.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

39.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

40.

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

Charles M. Schulz

41.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

42.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

43.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

44.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Harrigan, John

46.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

48.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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

Donne, John

50.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.