Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

10.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

12.

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

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

19.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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

Paolo Giordano

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

25.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kent, Sister Corita

29.

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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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

34.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Richardson, Nick

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

48.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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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