Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

- Hay, Louise L.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

West, Mae

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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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.

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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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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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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

Updike, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Byron, Lord

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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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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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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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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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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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

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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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

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King