Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

10.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

11.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

12.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

13.

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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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

19.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

21.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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

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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 love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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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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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

29.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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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 makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

42.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

44.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John