Motivational Quotes

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.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

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.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

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

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.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

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

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

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

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

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.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

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.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

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

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

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

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

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

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

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

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

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

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

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.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

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