Motivational Quotes

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

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, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

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.

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

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

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

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

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

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

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

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.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

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

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

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

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

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

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.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

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

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.

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