Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Peguy, Charles

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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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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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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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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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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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