Motivational Quotes

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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 don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

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

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

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

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

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.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

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

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

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

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

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

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

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

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.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

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

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

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

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

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

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

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

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.

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

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