Motivational Quotes

Love

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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Best Quotes about Love

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

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

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

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

10.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

11.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

12.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

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

Horton, Doug

14.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

15.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

16.

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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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

18.

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

Wilde, Kim

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

20.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

21.

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

Randy K. Milholland

22.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

24.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

27.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

28.

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

Osgood, Samuel

29.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

31.

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, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

33.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

34.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

35.

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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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

39.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

40.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

42.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

44.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

46.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

47.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

49.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas