Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Horton, Doug

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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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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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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

19.

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

Proverb, French

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Vicious, Sid

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh