Motivational Quotes

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

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

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

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.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

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

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

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

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.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

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

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

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

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

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

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

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

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.

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.

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

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

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

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

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.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

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.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

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

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

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