Motivational Quotes

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

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

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

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

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

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.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

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.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

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

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

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

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.

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

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

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

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Love is stronger than violence.

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

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

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

True love is the parent of humility.

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

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

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

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

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

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

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