Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Dryden, John

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

11.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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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

16.

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

Mother Teresa

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

19.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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

Duras, Marguerite

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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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

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

32.

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

William Shakespeare

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

38.

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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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Steindl-Rast, David

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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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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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.