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

Crawshaw, Richard

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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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.

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

19.

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

Julie Morgenstern

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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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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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, 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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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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

30.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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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

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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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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Scherer, Paul

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest