Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Love

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

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

10.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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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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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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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

18.

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

John of the Cross, St.

19.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

20.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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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

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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

24.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mother Teresa

30.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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

Bible

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

40.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

41.

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

42.

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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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

45.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

46.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

47.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

49.

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

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De