Motivational Quotes

Love

The best way to know God is to love many things.

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Love

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

14.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

15.

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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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

18.

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

Charles M. Schulz

19.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

23.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

24.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, 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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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

38.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

43.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

44.

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

45.

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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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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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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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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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