Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

- Groening, Matt

Best Quotes about Love

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

10.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

11.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

13.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

14.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

16.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

17.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Irving, Washington

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

20.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

25.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

26.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

27.

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

Bible

28.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

31.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

32.

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

Hay, Louise L.

33.

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

Peter Ustinov

35.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

38.

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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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

40.

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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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

43.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

44.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

45.

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

46.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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