Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

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

Guthrie, Arlo

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

10.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

12.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

15.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mother Teresa

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

Thurber, James

21.

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

Randy K. Milholland

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

24.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

31.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

34.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

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

William Shakespeare

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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

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

Davies, Robertson

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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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

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare