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

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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

Federman, Irwin

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

11.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

13.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

14.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

15.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

16.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

17.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

18.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

22.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

23.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

24.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

25.

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

Scott Westerfeld

26.

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

James, William

27.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

29.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

30.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

31.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

32.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

33.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

34.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

35.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

36.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

38.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

42.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

43.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

44.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

45.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

46.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

47.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

48.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

49.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

50.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr