Motivational Quotes

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

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

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

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

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

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

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

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

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Learn what you are and be such.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

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

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

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

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

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

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

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

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.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

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.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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

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

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

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.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

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