Motivational Quotes

Love

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

- Bertrand Russell

Best Quotes about Love

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Scherer, Paul

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

Murdoch, Iris

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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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.

11.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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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.

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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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 gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

36.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

39.

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

40.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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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

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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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 comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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

Horton, Doug

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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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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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure