Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Diane Ackerman

Best Quotes about Love

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Eucharista Ward

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Taylor, Jeremy

10.

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

Mencken, H. L.

11.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

13.

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

Sand, George

14.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

16.

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

Davies, Robertson

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

20.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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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 means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

24.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

25.

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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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

33.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

36.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

40.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

43.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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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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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

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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 and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare