Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is stronger than violence.

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

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

Pythagoras

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

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

J. K. Rowling

10.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

11.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

12.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

21.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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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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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

28.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

35.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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

Victor Hugo

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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

Smith, Sydney

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Hay, Louise L.

46.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

47.

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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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

Law, William