Motivational Quotes

Love

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

- Steindl-Rast, David

Best Quotes about Love

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

11.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

12.

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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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

14.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

15.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

17.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

18.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

19.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

20.

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

John of the Cross, St.

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

25.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

26.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

27.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

28.

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

Mother Teresa

29.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

30.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

31.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

32.

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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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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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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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

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

42.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Dryden, John

44.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

46.

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

47.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

48.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

49.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord