Motivational Quotes

Love

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

- Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Best Quotes about Love

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

10.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

11.

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.

12.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

13.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

14.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

15.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

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

Murdoch, Iris

17.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

18.

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

19.

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

20.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

21.

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

Charles M. Schulz

22.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

23.

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

24.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

25.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

26.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

27.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

28.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

29.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

34.

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

Sand, George

35.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

36.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

38.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

40.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

41.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

42.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

43.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

44.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

45.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

46.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

50.

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

Anouilh, Jean