Motivational Quotes

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

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.

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.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Love is stronger than justice.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

We can only learn to love by loving.

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

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

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.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

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.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

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

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

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

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

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

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.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Love without attachment is light.

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.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

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