Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is stronger than violence.

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about 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.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

11.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

14.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

15.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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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

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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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.

William Shakespeare

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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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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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

43.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

46.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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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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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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