Motivational Quotes

Love

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

Fromm, Erich

11.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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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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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

23.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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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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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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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.