Motivational Quotes

Love

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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

J. K. Rowling

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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

Hay, Louise L.

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

Bible

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

14.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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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

18.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

19.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Murdoch, Iris

21.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

22.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

23.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

25.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

30.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

33.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

34.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

35.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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

39.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

40.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

45.

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

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

Law, William

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

48.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu