Motivational Quotes

Love

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Jewish

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

10.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

14.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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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

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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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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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

William Penn

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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

Mencken, H. L.

35.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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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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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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

Lao-Tzu

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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

Federman, Irwin

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De