Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's reason's without reason.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

10.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

11.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

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

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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

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

15.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

18.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

19.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

23.

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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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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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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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

35.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

37.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

40.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

41.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

42.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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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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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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

49.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde