Motivational Quotes

Love

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

- Auvil, Myrtle

Best Quotes about Love

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Plato

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Bible

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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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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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Hay, Louise L.

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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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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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

Voltaire

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

29.

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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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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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

35.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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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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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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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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

Julie Morgenstern

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.