Motivational Quotes

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

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.

I leave before being left. I decide.

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

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.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

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.

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

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

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

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

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.

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

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

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

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.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

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.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

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.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

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.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

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

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

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

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

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

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 a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

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