Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Hay, Louise L.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerome, St.

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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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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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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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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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

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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 unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

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