Motivational Quotes

Love

A heart that loves is always young.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Love

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

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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

Victor Hugo

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

Desai, Yogi

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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

Bible

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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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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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

20.

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

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

Pythagoras

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

29.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

34.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.