Motivational Quotes

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

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.

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

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

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

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

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

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

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

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 would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

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

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

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.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

True love is the parent of humility.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

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

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

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

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.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

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

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

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