Motivational Quotes

Love

Teach only love for that is what you are.

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Love

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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

Alan Watts

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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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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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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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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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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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

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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's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

Wilde, Kim

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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