Motivational Quotes

Love

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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

Sophocles

10.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

11.

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

12.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

17.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

18.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

20.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

21.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

23.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

27.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

28.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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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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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.

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

West, Mae

40.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

43.

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

Leunig, Michael

44.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

45.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat