Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Love

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

11.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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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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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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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

17.

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

William Shakespeare

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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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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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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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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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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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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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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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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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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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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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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

Diane Ackerman

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og