Motivational Quotes

Love

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Love

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Victor Hugo

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

11.

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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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Margaret Cho

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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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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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

34.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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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.

Davis, Bette

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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

Bruyere, Jean De La