Motivational Quotes

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

Love is the river of life in the world.

One is very crazy when in love.

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.

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

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

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.

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

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

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.

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

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

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.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

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

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

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