Inspirational Quotes

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Love is not a "zero-sum" game:

"The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite."

Inspirational quotes from William Shakespeare

"Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile..."

“Arjuna Mistress mine, do not hope to pacify love with airy nothings. Give me something to clasp, something that can last longer than pleasure, that can endure even through suffering..”

Rabindranath Tagore Chitra

And broncos he breaks, But he’s given up riding And all for my sake, For he found him a horse And it suited him so That he vowed he’d ne’er ride Any other bronco…And that gun he can use, But he’s quit his gun fighting As well as his booze. And he’s sold him his saddle, His spurs, and his rope, And there’s no more cow-punching And that’s what I hope.”

Stewart Edward, White Arizona Nights

A woman's only armour is her virtue. She alone is chaste who is not kept Chaste by fear.

OVID

"The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss."

Parents often love each other through its visible manifestation in a child.

Love, love, Ellen, my little one! Love indestructible, love undefiled, Love through all deeps of her spirit lies bared to me, Oft as I look on the face of her child.

Joseph Munby "Apres"

"Arjuna I seem to see her, in my mind’s eye, riding on a white horse, proudly holding the reins in her left hand, and in her right a bow, and like the Goddess of Victory dispensing glad hope all round her. Like a watchful lioness she protects the litter at her dugs with a fierce love. Woman’s arms, though adorned with naught but unfettered strength, are beautiful!

Rabindranath Tagore Chitra

My heart is restless, fair one, like a serpent reviving from his long winter’s sleep. Come, let us both race on swift horses side by side, like twin orbs of light sweeping through space. Out from this slumbrous prison of green gloom, this dank, dense cover of perfumed intoxication, choking breath.

Rabindranath Tagore Chitra

IF anyone deems it a disgrace to be the slave of a beautiful woman, well then, I will plead guilty to the charge.

OVID

Love a deity! Love is a madness, thrust forth from hell by some fury. He speeds across the earth in hasty flight, and they whom he visits soon discover that he brings no deity with him, but frenzy rather; yet none will he visit except those abounding overmuch in earthly felicity; for they, he knows, in their overweening conceit, are ready to afford him lodgment and shelter.

Giovanni Boccaccio La Fiammetta

Happy he who dies in the lists of Love. I pray the gods that such may be my end.

Ovid

What is love? I have read plenty of ancient verbiage on that subject, I have read likewise most of what has been said by modern writers, but neither all that has been said, nor what I have thought about it, when I was young and now that I am no longer so, nothing, in fact, can make me agree that love is a trifling vanity. It is a sort of madness, I grant that, but a madness over which philosophy is entirely powerless; it is a disease to which man is exposed at all times, no matter at what age, and which cannot be cured, if he is attacked by it in his old age. Love being sentiment which cannot be explained! God of all nature!--bitter and sweet feeling! Love!-- charming monster which cannot be fathomed! God who, in the midst of all the thorns with which thou plaguest us, strewest so many roses on our path that, without thee, existence and death would be united and blended together!

Jacques Casanova Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Ovid thought love was hard work:

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Thou wouldst not be a sluggard? Well then, love a woman.

Ovid

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever."

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.

Captain Corelli, Mandolin

“There are five kinds of love known to man,” said M. Querini. “The love of one’s neighbour, the love of God, which is beyond compare, the highest of all, love matrimonial, the love of house and home, and the love of self, which ought to come last of all, though many place it in the first rank.”

Jacques Casanova Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

THY lover is a soldier, and Cupid hath his camp. Aye, believe me, Atticus, every lover is a soldier.

OVID

Dress well, but do not over-dress; smell sweet; attend to your teeth; see that your legs are not hairy; learn the art of cosmetics, but don't powder and paint before your lover.

Ovid

"How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning."

“As we grow older we see more and more that character is the main thing in life, and I would rather have a child of mine marry a young man of sound principles whom she respected than one of undisciplined character and lax ideas whom she loved.”

John Kendrick Bangs "The Son-in-Law" The Whole Family

"No new wine for me!" he cries. "Let me have a rich and mellow vintage."

Ovid

Some few days later Melisso, having taken leave of Giosefo, went home, and told a wise man the counsel he had gotten from Solomon. Whereupon:--“And no truer or sounder advice could he have given thee,” quoth the sage: “thou knowest that thou lovest never a soul, and that the honours thou payest and the services thou renderest to others are not prompted by love of them, but by love of display. Love, then, as Solomon bade thee, and thou shalt be loved.” On such wise was the unruly chastised; and the young man, learning to love, was beloved.

Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

"If my darling should depart And search the skies for prouder friends, God forbid my angry heart In other love should seek amends.

"Love is the beauty of the soul."

St. Augustine

Ovid, Chapter 1, for Lovers

Ovid, Chapter 2

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