Motivational Quotes

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

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 fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

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

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

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.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Love is a serious mental disease.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

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

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

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.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

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.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Love, while you are able to love.

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

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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