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

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.

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

Fromm, Erich

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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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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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Alan Watts

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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

Duras, Marguerite

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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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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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick