Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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.

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

Proverb

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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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 is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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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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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

William Shakespeare

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

31.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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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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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

William Shakespeare

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Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

49.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth