Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Fitzgerald, Zelda

Best Quotes about Love

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Laing, R. D.

10.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

11.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

12.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

13.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

14.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

15.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

16.

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

17.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

18.

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

19.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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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.

21.

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.

22.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

23.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

25.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

26.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

27.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

28.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Alan Watts

34.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

38.

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

West, Mae

39.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

40.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

41.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

42.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

43.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

46.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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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

49.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson