Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Buddha

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

Vicious, Sid

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

19.

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

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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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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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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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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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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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Sand, George

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil