Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

10.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

11.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

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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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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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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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

18.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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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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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

23.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

30.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

31.

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

Buber, Martin

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

33.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

34.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

35.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

36.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Orwell, George

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

43.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

44.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John