Motivational Quotes

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

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.

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

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

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

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

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.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

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

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

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

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

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

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?

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

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

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

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

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

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

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.

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

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

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

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

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

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

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

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