Motivational Quotes

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

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.

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.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

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

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.

I shall always be a priest of love.

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

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

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

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.

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

Love is all you need.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

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.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

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

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

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

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

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

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.

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

The hottest love has the coldest end.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

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

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