Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Charles M. Schulz

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

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

11.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

12.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

15.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

17.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

19.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

20.

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

Behn, Aphra

21.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

22.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

24.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

25.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

28.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

29.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

33.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

34.

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

Scott Westerfeld

35.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

36.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

37.

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.

38.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

39.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

40.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

41.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

42.

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

43.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

44.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

45.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

46.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

47.

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

Augustine, St.

48.

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