Motivational Quotes

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.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

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

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

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

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

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

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

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.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

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

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.

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.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

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

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

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

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

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

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.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

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

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

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.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Love without attachment is light.

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

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

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.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

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