Motivational Quotes

Love

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Love

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

Laing, R. D.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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

Mencken, H. L.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

10.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

11.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

12.

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

Thurber, James

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Wilde, Kim

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

28.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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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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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

32.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

33.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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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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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert