Motivational Quotes

Love

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Rita Mae

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

10.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

11.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

12.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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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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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

31.

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

32.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

40.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

46.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

47.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster