Motivational Quotes

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

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

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, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

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

Lovers should also have their days off.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

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

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

We live in the world when we love it.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

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.

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.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

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

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Love, while you are able to love.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

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.

Learn what you are and be such.

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

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

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Love is all you need.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Love's reason's without reason.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

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.

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.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

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

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

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

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.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

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

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