Motivational Quotes

Love

Teach only love for that is what you are.

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Love

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

William Shakespeare

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

10.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Nathan, George Jean

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

Laing, R. D.

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

Bible

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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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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

31.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar