Motivational Quotes

Love

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Love

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

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

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.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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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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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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

Southey, Robert

18.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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

Sand, George

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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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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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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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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

34.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

Lao-Tzu

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

43.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, 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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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.