Motivational Quotes

Love

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

- Karen Sunde

Best Quotes about Love

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

Buddha

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.

Anton Chekhov

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Wilde, Kim

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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'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

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Calvino, Italo

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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

36.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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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 was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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

Byron, Lord

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.