Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

- Roethke, Theodore

Best Quotes about Love

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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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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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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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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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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 begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

34.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Wilkerson, David

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

Pythagoras

49.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich