Motivational Quotes

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

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

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

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

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

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.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

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

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

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.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

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

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

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

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

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

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.

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

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Love is the cheapest of religions.

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.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

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

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

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.

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.

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

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

One is very crazy when in love.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

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