Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Best Quotes about Love

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

11.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

12.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

13.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

16.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

17.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

18.

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

19.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

20.

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

Leunig, Michael

21.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

23.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

24.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

25.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

26.

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

Rossetti, Christina

27.

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

28.

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

Barry, Lynda

29.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

30.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

31.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

32.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

34.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

35.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

36.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

37.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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

William Shakespeare

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

41.

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

Pavese, Cesare

42.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

43.

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.

44.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

45.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

47.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

48.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.