Motivational Quotes

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

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

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

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

Love, while you are able to love.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

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

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

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

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

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

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

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

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

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

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

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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 rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

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.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

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.

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.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

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