Motivational Quotes

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

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

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Be that self which one truly is.

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.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

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

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

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

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 the cheapest of religions.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

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

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

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.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

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

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

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 alone could waken love.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

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

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

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

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.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

One is very crazy when in love.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

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