Motivational Quotes

Love

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

11.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

18.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

Smith, Sydney

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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 a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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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

29.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

31.

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

Sand, George

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

Scott Westerfeld

33.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

34.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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

Pascal, Blaise

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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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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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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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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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

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare