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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it."

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"And you completely blow me away and rip my world up and everything else, and then you go back to ignoring me. "I blew you away? I squeak out before I can stop myself. He stares at me steadily. "You blew everything away."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

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"A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover's world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian's world revolves around the world."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Love, Affection, Sentiment, Emotion

"Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"We are home to each other now."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Love, Home, Connection, Togetherness

"How'd you know he was the one?""I didn't know. I don't think either of us knew."Heather rolled her eyes. "Neal knew - he proposed to you.""It's not like that," Georgie said. "You'll see. It's more like you meet someone, and you fall in love, and you hope that that person is the one - and then at some point, you have to put down your chips. You just have to make a commitment and hope that you're right."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

Love, Commitment, Hope, Relationship

"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

Alan Watts, English Philosopher

Love, Work, Heart, Fear

"Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same."

Voltaire, French Writer

Love, Faults, Flies

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"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."

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"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love."

"Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it."

"And you completely blow me away and rip my world up and everything else, and then you go back to ignoring me. "I blew you away? I squeak out before I can stop myself. He stares at me steadily. "You blew everything away."

"A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover's world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian's world revolves around the world."

"I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love."

"Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine."

"We are home to each other now."

"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

"Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same."

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"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."

"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."

"The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others."

"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay."

"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."

"We say little, when vanity does not make us speak."

"When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them."

"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."

"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."

"If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss."