Motivational Quotes

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

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

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.

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.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

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

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

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

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 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?

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

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

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

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

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