Motivational Quotes

Love

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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

Brooke, Rupert

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

Bible

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

Thurber, James

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

11.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

12.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

14.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

17.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

18.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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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

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

Disney, Walt

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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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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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

25.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

33.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

34.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

35.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

36.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

37.

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

Peter Ustinov

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

41.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.