Motivational Quotes

Love

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

- Sergeevich, Ivan

Best Quotes about Love

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Byron, Lord

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

William Shakespeare

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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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

11.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

12.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

14.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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.

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

25.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

26.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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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.

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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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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

31.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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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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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

46.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Plato