Motivational Quotes

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

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.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

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.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

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

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

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

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

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.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

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

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

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

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Love is a friendship set to music.

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

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

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

Love alone could waken love.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

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

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

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

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

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

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

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

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

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.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

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

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

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