Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Kent, Sister Corita

Best Quotes about Love

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

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

David Viscott

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

Turner, Ted

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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

William Shakespeare

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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

Toni Morrison

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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 cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

34.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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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

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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

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.