Motivational Quotes

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

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?

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.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

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

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

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?

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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

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

Lovers should also have their days off.

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

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

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.

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

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

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

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

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

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

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

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.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

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.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

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

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

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

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