Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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

Peguy, Charles

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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

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

Disney, Walt

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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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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

Vicious, Sid

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Youngman, Henny

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

Mother Teresa

23.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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

David Viscott

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

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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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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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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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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

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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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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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace