Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

- Robert Frost

Best Quotes about Love

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

Southey, Robert

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 is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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.

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

Pythagoras

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

Levine, Stephen

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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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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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Capote, Truman

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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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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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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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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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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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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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 makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.