Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Levine, Stephen

Best Quotes about Love

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Hay, Louise L.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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

Leunig, Michael

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

John of the Cross, St.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Elizabeth Aston

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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

10.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

11.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

12.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, Les

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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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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

20.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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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

22.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

28.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

30.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

31.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

32.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

33.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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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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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

37.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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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 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

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.