Motivational Quotes

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

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.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

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.

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

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

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

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

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

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

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.

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

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

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

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

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

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

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

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Do all things with love.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

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

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

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

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

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

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

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

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

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