Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Love

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

10.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

11.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

12.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

13.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

14.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

15.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

16.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

18.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

19.

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

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

Donne, John

21.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

22.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

23.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

24.

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

Proverb, Irish

25.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

26.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

28.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

30.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

31.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

32.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

33.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

34.

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

35.

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

Wilde, Oscar

36.

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

Buddha

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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 a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

40.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

41.

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

William Penn

42.

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

43.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

44.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

45.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

46.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

48.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

49.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

50.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La