Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Toni Morrison

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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

Mother Teresa

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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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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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

41.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, 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

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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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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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