Motivational Quotes

Love

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Love

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

11.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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

Allen, Woody

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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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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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Rita Rudner

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

Clark, Melanie

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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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.

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Wilkerson, David

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

Williams, William Carlos

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Augustine, St.

41.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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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

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb, Spanish