Motivational Quotes

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

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

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

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.

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

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

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

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?

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

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

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

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

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

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.

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

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

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.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

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.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

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.

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

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

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

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

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