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

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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

William Shakespeare

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

10.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

11.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

12.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

13.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

14.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

18.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

19.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hugo, Victor

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

24.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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.

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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

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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

Behn, Aphra

30.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

31.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

33.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

34.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

William Shakespeare

36.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

40.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

41.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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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

44.

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

45.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

47.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

48.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

49.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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