Motivational Quotes

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

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

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

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

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

A heart that loves is always young.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

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.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

Love is stronger than violence.

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

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

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

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

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

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

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

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

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 does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

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