Motivational Quotes

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

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

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

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

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

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

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

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

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

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

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.

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.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

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

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

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

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

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.

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

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.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

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

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

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.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

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