{"topic":"love","quotes":[{"quote":"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.","author":"Alan Watts"},{"quote":"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.","author":"Ann Radcliffe"},{"quote":"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.","author":"Anne-Sophie Swetchine"},{"quote":"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.","author":"Anton Chekhov"},{"quote":"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.","author":"Bertrand Russell"},{"quote":"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.","author":"Bette Davis"},{"quote":"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.","author":"Blaise Pascal"},{"quote":"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.","author":"Carl Jung"},{"quote":"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.","author":"Charles M. Schulz"},{"quote":"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.","author":"David Viscott"},{"quote":"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.","author":"Diane Ackerman"},{"quote":"Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.","author":"Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider"},{"quote":"There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.","author":"Dorothy Parker"},{"quote":"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,<br> A medley of extemporanea; <br>And love is a thing that can never go wrong; <br>And I am Marie of Romania.","author":"Ella Wheeler Wilcox"},{"quote":"One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.","author":"Erica Jong"},{"quote":"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.","author":"Euripides"},{"quote":"Love is everything it's cracked up to be�It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche"},{"quote":"People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche"},{"quote":"When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.","author":"H. L. Mencken"},{"quote":"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.","author":"Henry Bromel"},{"quote":"What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do�?","author":"Henry David Thoreau"},{"quote":"They wouldn't call it falling in love if you didn't get hurt sometimes, but you just pick yourself up and move on.","author":"Hugh Elliott"},{"quote":"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.","author":"Ice T"},{"quote":"Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.","author":"Iris Murdoch"},{"quote":"There is no remedy for love but to love more.","author":"Iris Murdoch"},{"quote":"Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.","author":"J. K. Rowling"},{"quote":"Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place."},{"quote":"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."},{"quote":"We can only learn to love by loving."},{"quote":"When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love."}]}