Motivational Quotes

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

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

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

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

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

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

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

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

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.

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

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

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

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

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

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

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

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

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

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

Love is stronger than justice.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

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

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

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

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

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