Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Love

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Mencken, H. L.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

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

Hay, Louise L.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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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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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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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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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Crawford, Joan

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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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 composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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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.

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Ovid

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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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 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

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George