Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Love

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.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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

Angelis, Barbara De

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

10.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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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.

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

13.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

25.

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

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

28.

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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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

James, William

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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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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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil