Motivational Quotes

Love

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

- Williams, William Carlos

Best Quotes about Love

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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

William Shakespeare

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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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 an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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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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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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

Sarton, May

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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

Horton, Doug

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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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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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean