Motivational Quotes

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

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.

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.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

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.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

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

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

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

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

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

Love without attachment is light.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

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

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

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

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

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

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

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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 said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Learn what you are and be such.

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

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by Motivational Quotes.