Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Charles M. Schulz

Best Quotes about Love

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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

Wilde, Kim

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

10.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

11.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

12.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

13.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

14.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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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

16.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

19.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Eliot, T. S.

21.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

22.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

23.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

24.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

25.

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

26.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

27.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

28.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

29.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

30.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

31.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

32.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

33.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

34.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

35.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

36.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

37.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

38.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

39.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

40.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

41.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

44.

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

45.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

48.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.