Motivational Quotes

Love

He who is not impatient is not in love.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Davis, Bette

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

10.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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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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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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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

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

33.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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

Ovid

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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.

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Sand, George

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.