Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Love

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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

Chambless, David

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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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 something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

17.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

18.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

20.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

21.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

23.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

32.

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

Confucius

33.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.