Motivational Quotes

Love

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Love

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

John of the Cross, St.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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

Clark, Melanie

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

10.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

11.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

13.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

18.

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.

19.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

20.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

21.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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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

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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

27.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

28.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

30.

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

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

32.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

35.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

36.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

37.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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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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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.