Motivational Quotes

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

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

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

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

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

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

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 is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

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.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

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.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

We always come back to our first love.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Learn what you are and be such.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

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

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

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 is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

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

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

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