Motivational Quotes

Love

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

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

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

10.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

12.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

14.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

25.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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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 - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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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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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

40.

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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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

44.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

45.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Seneca

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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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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich