Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Love

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Buber, Martin

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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

Rossetti, Christina

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

10.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

11.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

12.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

13.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

14.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

15.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Wilkerson, David

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

20.

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

Pascal, Blaise

21.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

22.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

23.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

25.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

26.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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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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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

33.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

34.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

35.

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

Behn, Aphra

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

45.

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

Sophocles

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

47.

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

48.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

49.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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

Ice T