Motivational Quotes

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

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

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

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.

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.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

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

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

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.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

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.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Love is the beauty of the soul.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

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.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

We live in the world when we love it.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

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