Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about 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

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

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

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Plato

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

10.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

11.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

12.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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

Bible

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

Disney, Walt

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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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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Mother Teresa

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

Aristotle

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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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

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

34.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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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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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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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 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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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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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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De