Motivational Quotes

Love

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Love

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.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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.

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.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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

Jane Austen

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

Dryden, John

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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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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Blanton, Smiley

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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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

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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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