Motivational Quotes

Love

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

- French, Marilyn

Best Quotes about Love

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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

Murdoch, Iris

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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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 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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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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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

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

Wilde, Kim

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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

Carroll, Pat

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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

W. Somerset Maugham