Motivational Quotes

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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?

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

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.

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

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

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

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

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

Love is stronger than justice.

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.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

We live in the world when we love it.

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.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

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

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.

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.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

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