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

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Angelis, Barbara De

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

10.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

11.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

12.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

13.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

22.

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

Reagan, Ronald

23.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

24.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

25.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

27.

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

Brookner, Anita

28.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

29.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

30.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

32.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Chanel, Coco

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

43.

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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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