Motivational Quotes

Love

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

- Bernard, St.

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Ice T

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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

Disney, Walt

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

10.

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

Behn, Aphra

11.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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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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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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

Buscaglia, Leo

18.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

19.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

22.

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

23.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

24.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

25.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

27.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

28.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

29.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

30.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

31.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

32.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

34.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

35.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

38.

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

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

40.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.