Motivational Quotes

Love

We don't always get to choose what we love.

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Love

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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

Angelis, Barbara De

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Charles M. Schulz

10.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

11.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

12.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

13.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

15.

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

Paolo Giordano

16.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

20.

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

21.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

22.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

24.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

25.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

26.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

27.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

29.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

31.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

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.

34.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

35.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

36.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?