Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

- Roethke, Theodore

Best Quotes about Love

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

12.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

13.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

15.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

18.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

22.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

23.

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

Julie Morgenstern

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

William Shakespeare

25.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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

Clark, Melanie

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

30.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

31.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

32.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

34.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

35.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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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

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

45.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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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

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

50.

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

Sarton, May