Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

William Shakespeare

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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

10.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

11.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

12.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

15.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

16.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

17.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

18.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

20.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

23.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

26.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

27.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

28.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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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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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

31.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

34.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

35.

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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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

39.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

41.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

42.

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.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

45.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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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