Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

- Law, William

Best Quotes about Love

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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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.

11.

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

12.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

16.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

18.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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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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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

25.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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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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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

28.

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

Kempis, Thomas

29.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

30.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

31.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

32.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Irving, Washington

35.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

42.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

46.

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

Bible

47.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

49.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster