Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Fitzgerald, Zelda

Best Quotes about Love

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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.

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's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

10.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Bailey, Pearl

12.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

13.

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

14.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

16.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

17.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

18.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

21.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

22.

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

Randy K. Milholland

23.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

24.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

25.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

26.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

27.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

28.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

29.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

30.

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

32.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

33.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

34.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

35.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

36.

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

37.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

38.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

39.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

40.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

41.

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

42.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

43.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

44.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

45.

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

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

48.

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

49.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

50.

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