Motivational Quotes

Love

Love without attachment is light.

- Brown, Norman O.

Best Quotes about Love

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

William Shakespeare

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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

David Viscott

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

10.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

13.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

14.

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

Osgood, Samuel

15.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.