Motivational Quotes

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

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

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.

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

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

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

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

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.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

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.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Every man loves what he is good at.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

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

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

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

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

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

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

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

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

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

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

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

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

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

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