Motivational Quotes

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

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.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Love is stronger than violence.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Love's reason's without reason.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

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.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

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

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

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.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

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

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

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.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

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

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.

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

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

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

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

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

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

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