Motivational Quotes

Love

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

- Tebbets, Frank

Best Quotes about Love

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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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

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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

Buber, Martin

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bible

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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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

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

40.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Randy K. Milholland

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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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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare