Motivational Quotes

Love

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Love

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Allen, Woody

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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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

11.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

12.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

13.

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

Bible

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

16.

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

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

18.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

19.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

22.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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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 most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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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 big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

29.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

31.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

32.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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

Levine, Stephen

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

38.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

39.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

40.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Mother Teresa

42.

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

Swift, Jonathan

43.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

44.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

48.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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

Buddha