Motivational Quotes

Love

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Love

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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

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

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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

Bridges, Robert

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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

Hugo, Victor

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Donne, John

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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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

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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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

Real Live Preacher

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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

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Wilde, Kim

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

Buddha

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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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

35.

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

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.