Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

- Haight, David B.

Best Quotes about Love

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Verse, A Haiku

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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

William Shakespeare

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Haight, David B.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

23.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

Proverb

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

William Shakespeare

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

Saltus, Edgar

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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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

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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

Leunig, Michael

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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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

50.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.