Motivational Quotes

Love

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

- Hayes, Helen

Best Quotes about Love

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

Jerome, St.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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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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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Horton, Doug

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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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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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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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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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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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 you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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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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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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

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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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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel