Love Quotes

The force that moves poets, philosophers, and ordinary people to extraordinary acts.

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"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
Mother Teresa
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"Love has a hem on its garment that reaches the very dust. It sweeps the streets."
Mother Teresa
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"I try to give to poor people for love not just for money."
Mother Teresa
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"Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own."
Mother Teresa
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"Love cannot remain by itself it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service."
Mother Teresa
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"We are called to love one another as I have loved you."
Mother Teresa
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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."
Mother Teresa
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"The most important thing is not what we give, but how much love we put into the giving."
Mother Teresa
"Whoever has God lacks nothing, if only he loves God truly."
Meister Eckhart
"The soul is as great as the thing it loves."
Meister Eckhart
"All creatures are loved equally by the divine."
Meister Eckhart
"One should love creatures without clinging to them."
Meister Eckhart
"The soul's deepest desire is union with the divine."
Meister Eckhart
"Love needs no reason, it is its own justification."
Meister Eckhart
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"Love is the bridge between what the soul desires and what the heart can bear"
John of the Cross
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"Love is both the journey and the destination of the spiritual life"
John of the Cross
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"To love truly is to love without expectation of return"
John of the Cross
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"Love requires the death of the self before it can truly live"
John of the Cross
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"To be loved by God is to be transformed from within"
John of the Cross
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"Love is the language that the soul speaks when words fail"
John of the Cross
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"The heart must break to let infinite love pour in"
John of the Cross
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"True love requires sacrifice."
Pope Francis
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"The greatest commandment is to love."
Pope Francis
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"In your light, I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Love is the bridge between you and everything."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Knock on the door of love repeatedly."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"In death, they were not divided."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Suffering becomes sweet when offered in love to the Divine."
Teresa of Avila