Motivational Quotes

Love

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

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

Crawshaw, Richard

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

10.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

11.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

15.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

16.

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

17.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

18.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

19.

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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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

23.

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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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

25.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

26.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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

Toni Morrison

31.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

32.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

33.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

34.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

35.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

39.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

40.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

41.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

42.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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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

49.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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