Motivational Quotes

Love

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

- Buber, Martin

Best Quotes about Love

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

10.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

12.

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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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

14.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

18.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

22.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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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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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

28.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

38.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

39.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

45.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

47.

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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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.