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A naked woman’s body is a biological fact. A woman dressed to seduce is an inhabited beauty, a promise of pleasure, a flame from Heaven.
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that.
If you love someone tell them. Most importantly, stay close to your friends. Let it make a difference in your day and theirs.
If true love shows up on your doorstep and you drive it away, that’s on you. Not the job or anything else.
TV: The Middleman
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
Movie: Zeitgeist
The world needs the inspiration of our undamaged instinctive love for the truth.
Of all weapons, Love is the most deadly and devastating and few there be who thrust their fate in its hands.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Letter to Annabella Milbanke
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
I pray that he falls in love the way other people fall in love, where it’s just a gift offered by a man and a woman at about the same time, where their hearts are flying toward one another, sure and scared.
Short story: How It Floods
I am ready to fall in love with anyone at any time, even if it’s just for a couple of minutes, because this is the only feeling worth having. It is so good. It is thick syrup.
Short story: How It Floods
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
You are young, and in love. Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.
Book: “Stardust” by Neil Gaiman
Every lover is in his heart a madman, and in his head a minstrel.
Book: “Stardust” by Neil Gaiman
Every desire for good and happiness is for each person a very great and insidious Love. (…) Love is the desire to possess what is good for ever.
I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad because I have it no longer.
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk everything, you risk even more.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Book: To Love and Be Loved
We’re all miracles. You know why? Because as humans, everyday we go about our business, and all that time, we know, we all know, that the things we love, the people we love at any time can all be taken away. We live knowing that, and we keep going anyway.
Movie: Little Children
“I will love you forever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again…”
“I’ll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we’ll cling together so tight that nothing and no one’ll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you… We’ll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams… And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won’t just be able to take one, they’ll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we’ll be joined so tight…”
“I’ll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we’ll cling together so tight that nothing and no one’ll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you… We’ll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams… And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won’t just be able to take one, they’ll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we’ll be joined so tight…”
Book: “The Amber Spyglass” by Philip Pullman
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty, and beauty stayed his hand. And from that day forward, he was as one dead.
Movie: King Kong
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
When kindness falls like rain, it washes me away.
Song: Counting Crows - “Anna Begins”
If you have to love something, you could do worse than to give your heart to a college.
You mustn’t force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
There are so many things that have to happen for two people to meet.
Movie: 21 Grams
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure, but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
I love you. And not in a friendly way, although I think we’re great friends. And not in a misplaced affection, puppy-dog way, although I’m sure that’s what you’ll call it. And it’s not because you’re unattainable. I love you. Very simple, very truly. You’re the epitome of every attribute and quality I’ve ever looked for in another person. I know you think of me as just a friend, and crossing that line is the furthest thing from an option you’d ever consider. But I had to say it. I can’t take this anymore. I can’t stand next to you without wanting to hold you. I can’t look into your eyes without feeling that longing you only read about in trashy romance novels. I can’t talk to you without wanting to express my love for everything you are. I know this will probably queer our friendship -no pun intended- but I had to say it, because I’ve never felt this before, and I like who I am because of it. And if bringing it to light means we can’t hang out anymore, then that hurts me. But I couldn’t allow another day to go by without getting it out there, regardless of the outcome, which by the look on your face is to be the inevitable shoot-down. And I’ll accept that. But I know some part of you is hesitating for a moment, and if there is a moment of hesitation, that means you feel something too. All I ask is that you not dismiss that -at least for ten seconds- and try to dwell in it. Alyssa, there isn’t another soul on this fucking planet who’s ever made me half the person I am when I’m with you, and I would risk this friendship for the chance to take it to the next plateau. Because it’s there between you and me. you can’t deny that. And even if we never speak again after tonight, please know that I’m forever changed because of who you are and what you’ve meant to me, which -while I do appreciate it- I’d never need a painting of birds bought at a diner to remind me of.
Movie: Chasing Amy
Love is a joint experience between two persons - but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
It is better to have loved and lost than to live with a psycho the rest of your life.
Silently,
He smiles to himself,
As he thinks of her,
Sitting alone in her kitchen,
Sipping coffee.
She thinks of him too,
But little does he know it.
Shamefully,
Both pass each other every day,
Without passing on the knowledge,
Of their inwardly turned love.
Time and time again it happens,
For who has the courage to say it first,
Or do they just enjoy,
Their secret love affair.
He smiles to himself,
As he thinks of her,
Sitting alone in her kitchen,
Sipping coffee.
She thinks of him too,
But little does he know it.
Shamefully,
Both pass each other every day,
Without passing on the knowledge,
Of their inwardly turned love.
Time and time again it happens,
For who has the courage to say it first,
Or do they just enjoy,
Their secret love affair.
Poem: Coffee Lovers
A good showerhead and my right hand,
the two best lovers that I ever had.
Now if you find you agree with what I just said,
you’d better find a new love and let ‘em into your head.
the two best lovers that I ever had.
Now if you find you agree with what I just said,
you’d better find a new love and let ‘em into your head.
Song: Into the Woods
A life with love will have many thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man’s honesty than that in which Phineas now found himself – that, namely, of knowing himself to be quite loved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.
Book: Phineas Finn
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up save in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
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