Motivational Quotes

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

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

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

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.

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

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

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

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

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.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

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

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

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.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

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

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

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.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

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