Motivational Quotes

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

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

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.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

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.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

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.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

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

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

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

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

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

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

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

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

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

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

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

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

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