Motivational Quotes

Love

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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Best Quotes about Love

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Leunig, Michael

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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

Behn, Aphra

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

10.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

11.

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

Bible

12.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

13.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

14.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

15.

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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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

19.

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

Carroll, Pat

20.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

23.

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

25.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

26.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

27.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

29.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

30.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

31.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

35.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

36.

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

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

38.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

41.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

42.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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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

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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

47.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

William Shakespeare