Motivational Quotes

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

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

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.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

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

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

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.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

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.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

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.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

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.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

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

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Love is a friendship set to music.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

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

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

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.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

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

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

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

Love is the beauty of the soul.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

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.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

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