Motivational Quotes

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

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

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

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.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

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

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

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.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

We live in the world when we love it.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

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

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

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

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.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

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?

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

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

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

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.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

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

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

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

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

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