Motivational Quotes

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.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

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

Do all things with love.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

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

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

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

Love is the beauty of the soul.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

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

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

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

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

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

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

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.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

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.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

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

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

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

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

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

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

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

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

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?

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

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.

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