Motivational Quotes

Love

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Best Quotes about Love

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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

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

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Buddha

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Irish

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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

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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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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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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

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert