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

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

Diane Ackerman

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

Crawshaw, Richard

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

16.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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.

19.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

23.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

31.

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

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

Auvil, Myrtle

33.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

34.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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

Jane Austen

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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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

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.