Motivational Quotes

Love

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Wilde, Kim

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

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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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

Smith, Sydney

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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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

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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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 is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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