Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Love

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

Ice T

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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

Saltus, Edgar

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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.

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

William Shakespeare

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

Verse, A Haiku

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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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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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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

Anouilh, Jean

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

28.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

35.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

41.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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

Nathan, George Jean

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.