Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Law, William

Best Quotes about Love

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

11.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

12.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

National Lampoon

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

17.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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

Lao-Tzu

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Jerome, St.

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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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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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.