Motivational Quotes

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

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

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

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

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

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.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

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.

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.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

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

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

We can only learn to love by loving.

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

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

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.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

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.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

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

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.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

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