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 is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Proverb

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

13.

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

14.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

15.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

17.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

19.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

20.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

21.

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

Sarton, May

22.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

23.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

24.

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

Diane Ackerman

25.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

26.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

27.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

28.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Saltus, Edgar

33.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

34.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

35.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

36.

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

Wilde, Oscar

37.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

38.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

39.

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.

40.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

41.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

42.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

43.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

44.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

45.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

46.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

47.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

48.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

49.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

50.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite