Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

Hazlitt, William

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

10.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

12.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

14.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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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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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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

Levine, Stephen

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Fox, Emmet

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Confucius

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

34.

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

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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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

38.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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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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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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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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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

45.

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

William Shakespeare

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.