Motivational Quotes

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

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

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

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.

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

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

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

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

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

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

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

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

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.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

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.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

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.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

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

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

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