Motivational Quotes

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

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

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

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

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.

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

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

We can only learn to love by loving.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

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

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Do all things with love.

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

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

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

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?

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Learn what you are and be such.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

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