Motivational Quotes

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

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

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

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.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

Teach only love for that is what you are.

Real love stories never have endings.

Love is stronger than violence.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

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

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

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

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

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.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

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.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

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.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

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?

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

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

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

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

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.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

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?

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

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

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