"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
(Jimi Hendrix)
"The thing that makes you exceptional,
if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely."
(Lorraine Hansberry)
"Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions."
(David Borenstein)
"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape."
(John Lancaster Spalding)
"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young."
(A.W. Pinero)
"...Him that I love,
I wish to be free - even from me."
(Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
"This earth, burnished by
hearing the name, is so certain of love,
that the sky bends unceasingly down,to greet its own light."Ghalib (1797-1869)
"If intelligence were taken
out of my life,
It would only be more or
less reduced.
If I had no one to love, It would be ruined."
(de Montherlant)
"Love tells me I am everything.
Wisdom tells me I am nothing.
And between the two my life flows."
(Sri Nisargadatta)
"By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying -
Lady make note of this:
One of you is lying."
(Dorothy Parker)
"The opposite of love is not hate, It's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, It's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, It's indifference."
(Elie Wiesel)
"I want a little sugar in my bowl,
I want a little sweetness down in my soul.
I could stand some loving oh so bad,
I feel so funny
I feel so sad."
(Nina Simone, "Sugar In My Bowl")
"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky,
to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
First to let go of life.
Finally, to take a step without feet."
(Rumi)
"The love we give away is the only one we keep."
(Anonymous)
"Tell me whom you love,
and I will tell you who you are."
(Houssaye)
"I reach out, wanting you to tear me open."
(Rumi)
Morning snow...
Plans to have a winter ball for you to throw
But just where or when he never lets you know
If it's snow or clear days you'll find
And so you wait to see what he'll do
Is it sun or snow for you
But it breaks your heart in two
Cause you've been fooled by April
And he's gone
And he's gone
Winter's gone
(Stevie Wonder, "Summer Soft")
"Love, I find, is like singing.
Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves,
though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much."
(Zora Neale Hurston)
"It is my will to go with the man I love.
I do not wish to count the cost.
I do not wish to consider whether it is good.
I do not wish to know whether he loves me.
It is my will to go with him
whom I love."
(Bertolt Brecht)
"Like a flower waiting to bloom,
Like a lightbulb in a dark room,
I'm here waiting for you to come on home,
And turn me on.."
(Nina Simone, "Turn Me On")
"There is no disguise which
can hide love for long where it exists,
or simulate it where it does not."
(La Rochefoucauld)
"My body writes into your flesh
the poem you make of me"
(Audre Lorde)
"If I might only grow small enough
To curl up into the hollow of your
palm, Your left palm,
Curl up, lie close and cling,
So that I might know myself always there
...Even if you forgot."
(Angelina Grimke, "Your Hands")
"Love does not die easily.
It is a living thing.
It thrives in the
face of all of life's hazards,
save one -- neglect. -- "
(James D. Bryden)
"I believe that if I should die,
and you were to walk near my grave,
from the very depths of the earth
I would hear your footsteps."
(Benito Perez Galdos)
"There is always something left to love.
And if you ain’t learned that,
you ain’t learned nothing."
(Lorraine Hansberry, "A Raisin In The Sun")
"It’s an awful thing to think about,
the way love never dies."
(James Baldwin, "The Amen Corner")
"Sometimes when I'm lonely,
Don't know why.
Keep thinking I won't be lonely
By and by."
(Langston Hughes, Hope)
"You could burn a thousand days
and I would need no other light
You could die a thousand ways
and I'd still love you back to life.."
(Cree Summer, "Mean Sleep")