Motivational Quotes

Love

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

- Fitzgerald, Zelda

Best Quotes about Love

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

10.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

11.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

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

13.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

14.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

15.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

16.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

17.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

18.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

19.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

20.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

21.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

22.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

23.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

24.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

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

26.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

27.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

28.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

29.

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

30.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

32.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

34.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

35.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

36.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

37.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

38.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

42.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

44.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

45.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

46.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

47.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

49.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

50.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.