Motivational Quotes

Love

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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Best Quotes about Love

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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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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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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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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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris