Motivational Quotes

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

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.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

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

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

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

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

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

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

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

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.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

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.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

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

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

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

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.

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

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

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

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

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

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

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.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

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