Motivational Quotes

Love

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Love

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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

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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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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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

William Shakespeare

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

48.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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

Thurber, James

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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.