Motivational Quotes

We can only learn to love by loving.

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

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

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.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

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 meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

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

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

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

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

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

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

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

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

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

Love the giver more than the gift.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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