Motivational Quotes

Love

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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

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

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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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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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

William Shakespeare

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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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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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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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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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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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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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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 is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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

William Shakespeare

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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

William Shakespeare

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham