Motivational Quotes

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

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

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

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

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.

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

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

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

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

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

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

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

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

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.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

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

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

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

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

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.

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.

Love is all you need.

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.

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 don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

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

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

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