Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Charles M. Schulz

Best Quotes about Love

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Steinfeld, Jake

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

10.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

11.

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

John Sheffield

12.

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

13.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

14.

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

Proverb, Japanese

15.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

18.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

20.

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

Lennon, John

21.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

24.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

27.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

28.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

32.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

33.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

35.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Murdoch, Iris

37.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

38.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

39.

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

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

42.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

43.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

44.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

45.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

46.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

49.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

50.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle