Motivational Quotes

Love

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

- Buber, Martin

Best Quotes about Love

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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

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

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

Carmichael, Amy

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

11.

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

Sophocles

12.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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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

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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

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker