Motivational Quotes

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

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

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

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.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

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.

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

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Learn what you are and be such.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

We always come back to our first love.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

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

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Love's reason's without reason.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

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

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

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.

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.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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

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