Motivational Quotes

Love

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

- Brookner, Anita

Best Quotes about Love

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

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

10.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.

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

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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

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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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 is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

37.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

42.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.