Motivational Quotes

Love

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

- Tomlin, Lily

Best Quotes about Love

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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

Hazlitt, William

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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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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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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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 feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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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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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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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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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.