Motivational Quotes

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

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

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

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

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

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.

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

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.

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

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

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

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

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

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Saddest Poem

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: The night is full of stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance.

The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

On nights like this, I held her in my arms. I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her.
How could I not have loved her large, still eyes?

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
To think I don't have her. To feel that I've lost her.

To hear the immense night, more immense without her.
And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass.

What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her.
The night is full of stars and she is not with me.

That's all. Far away, someone sings. Far away.
My soul is lost without her.

As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her.
My heart searches for her and she is not with me.

The same night that whitens the same trees.
We, we who were, we are the same no longer.

I no longer love her, true, but how much I loved her.
My voice searched the wind to touch her ear.

Someone else's. She will be someone else's. As she once
belonged to my kisses.
Her voice, her light body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her.
Love is so short and oblivion so long.

Because on nights like this I held her in my arms,
my soul is lost without her.

Although this may be the last pain she causes me,
and this may be the last poem I write for her.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Love alone could waken love.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

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