Motivational Quotes

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

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.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

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

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

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

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

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.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

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

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

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

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

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

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

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

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

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

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

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

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

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

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

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

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

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