Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

- Davis, Bette

Best Quotes about Love

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

10.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

11.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

12.

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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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

14.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

15.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

16.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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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

18.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

19.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

21.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

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

Charles M. Schulz

23.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

25.

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

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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.

27.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

28.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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

Wilde, Kim

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

33.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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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

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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

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!