Motivational Quotes

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

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

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

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

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

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

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

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.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

The only victory over love is flight.

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

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

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

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

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

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

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

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.

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

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

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