Motivational Quotes

Love

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

- Brookner, Anita

Best Quotes about Love

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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

Federman, Irwin

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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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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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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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

William Shakespeare

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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

Sand, George

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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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 is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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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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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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

William Shakespeare

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

West, Mae