Motivational Quotes

Love

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Love

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

12.

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

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

16.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

17.

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

James, William

18.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

19.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

21.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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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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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

25.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

26.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

27.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

28.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

29.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

30.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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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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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

34.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

35.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

39.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

40.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

42.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

45.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

49.

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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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French