Motivational Quotes

Love

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

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

Bible

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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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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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

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

36.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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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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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.