99 Amazing Love and Life Quotes

1.  When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills. Janis Joplin
2. To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. Plato
3. Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. Francis of Assisi
4. And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace. Michelle Obama
5. The greatest pleasure of life is love. Euripides
6. You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass. Frank Sinatra
7. Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. Pope John Paul II
8. Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
9. I love life because what more is there? Anthony Hopkins
10. Behold, my friends, the spring is come the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! Sitting Bull
11. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. Martin Luther King, Jr.
12. Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. W. H. Auden
13. Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. W. Somerset Maugham
14. All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. Andre Breton
15. We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
16. Never have partners. Hughes
17. I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are. Angelina Jolie
18. To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. Mary Oliver
19. Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. H. L. Mencken
20. Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
21. Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never. Colton, Charles C.
22. Love means not ever having to say you're sorry. Erich Segal
23. The most important thing in the world is family and love. John Wooden
24. What is love? It is the morning and the evening star. Sinclair Lewis
25. All love is vanquished by a succeeding love. Ovid
26. Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. Louise L. Hay
27. Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Jong, Erica
28. I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. Pietro Aretino
29. The love we give away is the only love we keep.  Hubbard, Elbert
30. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King, Jr.
31. It is most unwise for people in love to marry. George Bernard Shaw
32. True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
33. I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. George Burns
34. Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes
35. Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. Davis, Bette
36. My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. Maya Angelou
37. I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun. Arnold Schwarzenegger
38. Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words. Francois Rabelais
39. I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. Mother Teresa
40. Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough. Pierre Beaumarchais
41. Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. Marilyn French
42. Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. William Shakespeare
43. I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money. Bob Hope
44. Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. John Dryden
45. A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle
46. The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one. Honore de Balzac
47. They do not love that do not show their love. Shakespeare, William
48. I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. Julius Caesar
49. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. Henry David Thoreau
50. Love is blind friendship closes its eyes. Friedrich Nietzsche
51. To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its missi Lindbergh, Charles A.
52. Love cannot save you from your own fate. Jim Morrison
53. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything. Katharine Hepburn
54. If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
55. Love in its essence is spiritual fire.  Swedenborg
56. A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. Oscar Wilde
57. I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. Marilyn Monroe
58. Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. Joyce Brothers
59. Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Satchel Paige
60. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. William Shakespeare
61. To love someone means to see him as God intended him. Fyodor Dostoevsky
62. Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. Bruce Lee
63. Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
64. If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. Khalil Gibran
65. When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix
66. Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. Lord Byron
67. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. Martin Luther King, Jr.
68. If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do. Angelina Jolie
69. Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing. Torquato Tasso
70. Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. Greg Anderson
71. 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. Helen Hayes
72. Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery
73. What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. Robert Green Ingersoll
74. A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert
75. A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
76. The best proof of love is trust. Joyce Brothers
77. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Scott, Sir Walter
78. There is a woman at the begining of all great things. Alphonse de Lamartine
79. As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. William Shakespeare
80. He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. Franklin, Benjamin
81. Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. Lucinda Franks
82. It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain. Charlie Sheen
83. So long as we love, we serve so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend. Robert Louis Stevenson
84. If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. Benjamin Franklin
85. Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love. Ray Bradbury
86. The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. W. Somerset Maugham
87. Absence - that common cure of love. Lord Byron
88. Love is a better teacher than duty. Albert Einstein
89. I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged. Bob Dylan
90. There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. Wayne Dyer
91. I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love. Leslie Fiedler
92. Choose your love, Love your choice. Thomas S. Monson
93. He is not a lover who does not love forever. Euripides
94. If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. Emma Goldman
95. We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
96. Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him. Michael Jackson
97. This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. C. S. Lewis
98. Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. Robert Louis Stevenson
99. It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart