Motivational Quotes

Love

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

- Bataille, Georges

Best Quotes about Love

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

Davies, Robertson

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

10.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Charles M. Schulz

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

13.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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

William Shakespeare

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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

43.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.