Motivational Quotes

Love

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

- Cholmondeley, Mary

Best Quotes about Love

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.

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.

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

Clark, Melanie

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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

Bailey, Pearl

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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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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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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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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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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

Ackerman, Diane

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

36.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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Cholmondeley, Mary

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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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

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

47.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare