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

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

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

25.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Crawford, Joan

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

34.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.