Motivational Quotes

Love

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

- Turner, Rev. Dale

Best Quotes about Love

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

Saltus, Edgar

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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

Confucius

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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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

11.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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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 feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Delp, Alexis

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

Toni Morrison

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

Verse, A Haiku

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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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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

William Shakespeare

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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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

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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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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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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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.

William Shakespeare

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De