Motivational Quotes

Love

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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

Michael Patrick King

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Brookner, Anita

10.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

11.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

13.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

14.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

17.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

18.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

19.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

24.

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

Capote, Truman

25.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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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.

28.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

31.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

35.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

36.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

40.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

42.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

44.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

45.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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

Augustine, St.

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

49.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

50.

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

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