Motivational Quotes

Love

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

- Teasdale, Sara

Best Quotes about Love

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

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

Croft, Roy

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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

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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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

11.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Euripides

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

23.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

28.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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

Williams, William Carlos

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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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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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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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