Motivational Quotes

Love

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Love

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Groening, Matt

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Eliot, T. S.

10.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

11.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

12.

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

13.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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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

19.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

21.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

31.

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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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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

Leunig, Michael

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

42.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May