Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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

William Shakespeare

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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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

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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.

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Harrigan, John

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

Clark, Melanie

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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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 you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Buddha

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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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

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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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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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth