Motivational Quotes

Love

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

12.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Hay, Louise L.

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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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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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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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

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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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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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

35.

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

Irving, Washington

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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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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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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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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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

William Shakespeare

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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