Motivational Quotes

Love

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

- Schreiner, Olive

Best Quotes about Love

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Saltus, Edgar

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

10.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

11.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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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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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

20.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

21.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

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

Mother Teresa

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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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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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

32.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

33.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Toni Morrison

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

Brown, Les

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Ashley, Elizabeth