Motivational Quotes

Love

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

- Laing, R. D.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Williams, William Carlos

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

10.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

11.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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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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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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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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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

30.

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

Sand, George

31.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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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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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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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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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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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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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

49.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin