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

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

Diane Ackerman

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

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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

Jean Anouilh

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

10.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

13.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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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

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

20.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

21.

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

Wilde, Kim

22.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

23.

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 is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

25.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

27.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

28.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

29.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

30.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

31.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

32.

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

Buddha

33.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

34.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

36.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

37.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

38.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

39.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

40.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

41.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

42.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

45.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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