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

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

Randy K. Milholland

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

10.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

11.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

12.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

18.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

19.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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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.

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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 is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

27.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

29.

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

Vicious, Sid

30.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

31.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Ferry, Brian

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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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

41.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord