Motivational Quotes

Love

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Best Quotes about Love

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

John of the Cross, St.

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Hazlitt, William

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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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

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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

Wieder, Marcia

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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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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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

47.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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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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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van