Motivational Quotes

Love

Love without attachment is light.

- Brown, Norman O.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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

Federman, Irwin

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

10.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

11.

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.

12.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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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.

15.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

16.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

20.

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

21.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

22.

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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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Margaret Cho

25.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

26.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

29.

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

30.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

31.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

32.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

33.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

37.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

40.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

41.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Sophocles

44.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales