Motivational Quotes

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

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.

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.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Do all things with love.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Be that self which one truly is.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

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

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

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

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

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.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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

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.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

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

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

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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.

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.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

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

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

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

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.

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.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

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

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Love the giver more than the gift.

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