Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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

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

Orwell, George

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

11.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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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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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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 is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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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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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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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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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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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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

William Shakespeare

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Rossetti, Christina

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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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

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

Croft, Roy

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.