Motivational Quotes

Love

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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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

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

Murdoch, Iris

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

18.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

19.

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

J. K. Rowling

20.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

21.

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 a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

25.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

30.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

31.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

32.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

33.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

34.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Bible

38.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Fromm, Erich

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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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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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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

Hay, Louise L.