Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

10.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

11.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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

William Shakespeare

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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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

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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

Elizabeth Aston

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

18.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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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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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

21.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

22.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

23.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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.

Satir, Virginia

26.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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

Davies, Robertson

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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

Williams, William Carlos

30.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

32.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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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 means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

36.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

37.

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

Verse, A Haiku

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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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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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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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Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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