Motivational Quotes

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

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

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

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

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

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

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

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

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 me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

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.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

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.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

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?

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.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

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

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

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 (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

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

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

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

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

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

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

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

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

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

Love is the river of life in the world.

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