Motivational Quotes

Love

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

- John of the Cross, St.

Best Quotes about Love

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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

Wilde, Oscar

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

11.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

12.

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

Bible

15.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

William Shakespeare

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

19.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

23.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

24.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

25.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

27.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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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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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

39.

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

Disney, Walt

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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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

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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

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

45.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

46.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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

John of the Cross, St.

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques