Motivational Quotes

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

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.

Real love stories never have endings.

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.

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.

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

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

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

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

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

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

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 a serious mental disease.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

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

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

We always come back to our first love.

We live in the world when we love it.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

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.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

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.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

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