Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Wilde, Kim

Best Quotes about Love

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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.

12.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

14.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

15.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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

17.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

18.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

19.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

20.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

21.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

24.

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

Paolo Giordano

25.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

28.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

29.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Bailey, Pearl

31.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

32.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

33.

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

William Shakespeare

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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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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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

37.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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

William Shakespeare

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

Steindl-Rast, David

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

42.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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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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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

48.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

49.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

50.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.