Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Love

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

14.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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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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 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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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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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.

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

Ovid

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

46.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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