Motivational Quotes

Love

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Best Quotes about Love

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

Bailey, Pearl

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

10.

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

Martineau, Harriet

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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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.

17.

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

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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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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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

Toni Morrison

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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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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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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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

33.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

Chambless, David

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.