Motivational Quotes

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

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

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

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

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

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

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 isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

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.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

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.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

We live in the world when we love it.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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.

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.

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

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

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

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.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

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.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

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

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

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.

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

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

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