Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- John of the Cross, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Wilde, Oscar

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Reagan, Ronald

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Law, William

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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

Delp, Alexis

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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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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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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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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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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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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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

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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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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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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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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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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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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

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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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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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