Motivational Quotes

Love

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Love

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

11.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Jerome, St.

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Hugo, Victor

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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

Tracy, Brian

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Wilde, Kim

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Bible

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

40.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

41.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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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.

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas