Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

- Northern Exposure

Best Quotes about Love

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

Eliot, T. S.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

Durrell, Lawrence

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Federman, Irwin

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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 the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

20.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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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

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

31.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Jane Austen

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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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

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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

Julie Morgenstern

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Our first and last love is... self-love.