Motivational Quotes

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

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.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

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

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Real love stories never have endings.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

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

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.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

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

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 way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

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

We live in the world when we love it.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

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

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

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

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

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

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

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

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.

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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