Motivational Quotes

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

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Every man loves what he is good at.

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

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

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

My love admits no qualifying dross.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

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

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

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

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

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

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

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

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.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

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

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.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

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

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

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.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

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

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

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