Motivational Quotes

Love

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

- Hymn, Bengali

Best Quotes about Love

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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

Dickinson, Emily

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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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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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Bible

16.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Irving, Washington

18.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

19.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

20.

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

Croft, Roy

21.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

22.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

23.

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

Bertrand Russell

24.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

25.

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

Osgood, Samuel

26.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Jean Anouilh

31.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

36.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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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

40.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

41.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

42.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

43.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

46.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

47.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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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