Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Love

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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

Carl Jung

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

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.

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

13.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

14.

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

15.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

17.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

18.

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

Brookner, Anita

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

22.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

23.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

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

Ovid

26.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

27.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

28.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

29.

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

Mother Teresa

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

32.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

33.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

34.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

35.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

38.

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

Updike, John

39.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

40.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

43.

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

Barry, Lynda

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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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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert