Motivational Quotes

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

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

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

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

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

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

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

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.

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.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

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

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

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

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

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 is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

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