Motivational Quotes

Love

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

- Bataille, Georges

Best Quotes about Love

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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

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.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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

Youngman, Henny

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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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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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Chambless, David

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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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

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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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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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

Southey, Robert

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl