Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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

Verse, A Haiku

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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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 any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Anderson, Margaret

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.