Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Levine, Stephen

Best Quotes about Love

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

19.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

20.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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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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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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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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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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

Reagan, Ronald

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary