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

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Irving, Washington

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

10.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

12.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

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

Bible

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

19.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

21.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

22.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

23.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

25.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

26.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

27.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

28.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

30.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

37.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Federman, Irwin

43.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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