Motivational Quotes

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

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

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

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

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

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

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.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

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

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Love without attachment is light.

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

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

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

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

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

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

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

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.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

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.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

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.

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.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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

Real love stories never have endings.

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

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

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