Motivational Quotes

Love

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Love

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

10.

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

11.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

12.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

13.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

14.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

15.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

17.

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

Eliot, T. S.

18.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

21.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

23.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

24.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

25.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

27.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

28.

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

29.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

30.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

31.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

32.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

33.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

34.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

35.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

37.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

38.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

39.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

40.

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

Augustine, St.

41.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

42.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

43.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

44.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

45.

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

46.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

48.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

49.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen