Motivational Quotes

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

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

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.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

A heart that loves is always young.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

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

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

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.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

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

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

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

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

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

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.

Every man loves what he is good at.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

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.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Lovers should also have their days off.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

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