Motivational Quotes

Love

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

- Bataille, Georges

Best Quotes about Love

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

Jeph Jacques

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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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

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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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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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Auvil, Myrtle

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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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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

37.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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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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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

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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