Motivational Quotes

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

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

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

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

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

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

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.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

We live in the world when we love it.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Teach only love for that is what you are.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

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.

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

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

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

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

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

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

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.

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