Motivational Quotes

Love

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

- Josh Brand and John Falsey

Best Quotes about Love

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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

Hugo, Victor

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

11.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Hugo, Victor

16.

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

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

19.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

20.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

28.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

34.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

35.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

39.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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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

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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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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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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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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

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.