Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Mother Teresa

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

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

Meredith, George

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

10.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

11.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

12.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

14.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

15.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

16.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

17.

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

Youngman, Henny

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

19.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

20.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

21.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

23.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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

Bible

25.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

31.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

34.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

35.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

37.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

38.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

39.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

40.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

41.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

42.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.