Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Hugo, Victor

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

Sarton, May

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

Mother Teresa

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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

Wilkerson, David

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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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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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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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, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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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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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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.

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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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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Real love stories never have endings.