Motivational Quotes

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

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 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.

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

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

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

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

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.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

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

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.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

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.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

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

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

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.

Love is all you need.

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

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

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

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

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