Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Love

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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

Ferry, Brian

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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

Tracy, Brian

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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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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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Shakespeare, William

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

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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 are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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

Bible

25.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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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

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

49.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris