Motivational Quotes

Love

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

13.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

15.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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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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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

21.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

27.

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

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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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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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

32.

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

33.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

34.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

36.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

45.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques