Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Delp, Alexis

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

Seneca

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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

Jennifer Aniston

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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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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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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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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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

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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

Verse, A Haiku

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Laing, R. D.

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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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 ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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

Hugo, Victor

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