Motivational Quotes

Love

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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 is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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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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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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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 is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne