Motivational Quotes

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

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.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

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.

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.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

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

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

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

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

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

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

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.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

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

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

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?

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.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

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

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

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