Motivational Quotes

Love

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

William Shakespeare

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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 everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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

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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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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

45.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

David Viscott

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali