Motivational Quotes

Love alone could waken love.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

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

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

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.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

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

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

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

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

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

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

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 like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

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

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

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.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

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

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

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