Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Love

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

Steindl-Rast, David

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

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

10.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

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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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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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

14.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

27.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

28.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

31.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

32.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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