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 comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Diane Ackerman

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Jean Anouilh

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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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.

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

33.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Saltus, Edgar

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

44.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare