Motivational Quotes

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Love alone could waken love.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

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

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.

Be that self which one truly is.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

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.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

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

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

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

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

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

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

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

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

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

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

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.

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

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.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Love's reason's without reason.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

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.

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

We were two and had but one heart between us.

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.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

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.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

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