Motivational Quotes

Love

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Love

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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

Laing, R. D.

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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

Proverb, French

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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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

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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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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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

John Sheffield

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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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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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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

43.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.