Motivational Quotes

Love

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Love

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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

William Shakespeare

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

11.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

13.

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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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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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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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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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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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

William Shakespeare

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

34.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

36.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

38.

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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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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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Peguy, Charles

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

44.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Shakespeare, William

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