Motivational Quotes

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

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.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

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.

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

The only victory over love is flight.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Love is all you need.

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

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

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?

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

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

Love's reason's without reason.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

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.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

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

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

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

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

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.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

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.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

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.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

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.

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