Motivational Quotes

Love

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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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

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

16.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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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 said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

25.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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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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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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

West, Mae

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Smith, Sydney

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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.

40.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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

W. Somerset Maugham