Motivational Quotes

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

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.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Love alone could waken love.

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

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

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Love is stronger than justice.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

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

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

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.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

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

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

We don't always get to choose what we 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.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

We were two and had but one heart between us.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

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

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

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

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