Motivational Quotes

Love

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Love

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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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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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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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

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

28.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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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.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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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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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.