Motivational Quotes

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

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

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.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

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.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

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 the beauty of the soul.

Real love stories never have endings.

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

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

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

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

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

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.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

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.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

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?

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

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

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

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

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

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

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

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 is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

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

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

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

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

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.

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