Motivational Quotes

Love

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Love

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

11.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

12.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

14.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

16.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

17.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

19.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

20.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

21.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

25.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

28.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

31.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

33.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

34.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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

40.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

41.

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

42.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

43.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

47.

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

Proverb, Japanese

48.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

49.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest