Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Dane, Frank

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

28.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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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

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

Bible

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Toni Morrison

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green