Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is stronger than violence.

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Love

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

12.

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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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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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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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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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

30.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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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 [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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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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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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.

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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

Law, William

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo