Motivational Quotes

Love

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Love

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

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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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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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

Byron, Lord

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Julie Morgenstern

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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

Traherne, Thomas

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Victor Hugo

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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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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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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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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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare