Motivational Quotes

Love

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Love

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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

Law, William

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

Proverb, Irish

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

10.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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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.

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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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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

15.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

17.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

John of the Cross, St.

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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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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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

William Shakespeare

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

30.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

33.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

38.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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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

40.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

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

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.