Motivational Quotes

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.

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

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

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

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

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

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

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

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

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

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.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

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

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

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.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

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

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

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

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

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

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

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

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

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

Love, while you are able to love.

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

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

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