Motivational Quotes

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

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

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

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

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

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

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.

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.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

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

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

Our first and last love is... self-love.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

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 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 life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

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.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

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

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

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

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

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.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

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.

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.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

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