Motivational Quotes

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

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

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

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.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

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.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

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.

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

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

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

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.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Love is stronger than justice.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

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

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

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

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

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

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

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