Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is stronger than justice.

- Sting

Best Quotes about Love

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

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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

Wieder, Marcia

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Clark, Melanie

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Auvil, Myrtle

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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

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

20.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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

Julie Morgenstern

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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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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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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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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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 not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

William Shakespeare

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]