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

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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

10.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

11.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

12.

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

13.

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

14.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

15.

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

Jean Anouilh

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

20.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

21.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

22.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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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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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

26.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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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.

33.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

40.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

41.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

43.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

49.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean