Motivational Quotes

Love

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Hugo, Victor

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Osgood, Samuel

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

10.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

11.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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

Buddha

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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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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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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

Thurber, James

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

22.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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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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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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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

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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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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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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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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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

43.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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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

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

Clark, Melanie

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.