Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Love

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

10.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

11.

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.

12.

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

Alan Watts

13.

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

Clark, Melanie

14.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

16.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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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

18.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

21.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Brown, Les

25.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

26.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

27.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

31.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

33.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

40.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ice T

44.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

45.

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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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

47.

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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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

49.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.