Motivational Quotes

Love

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Love

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

John of the Cross, St.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Hay, Louise L.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

11.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

12.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

13.

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

Bailey, Pearl

14.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

15.

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

Willis, Bruce

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

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

Clark, Melanie

19.

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

Delp, Alexis

20.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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

22.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

23.

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

24.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

28.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

29.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

31.

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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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

33.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

35.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

36.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

37.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

38.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

39.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

40.

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

41.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

42.

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

Ackerman, Diane

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

Nathan, George Jean

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Love is the river of life in the world.