Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Love

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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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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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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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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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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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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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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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.