Motivational Quotes

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

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

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

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

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

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

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

We always come back to our first love.

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

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

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

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

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?

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

Love, while you are able to love.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

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

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

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

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

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.

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

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

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.

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

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.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

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

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

Love's reason's without reason.

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