There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
no disease that enough love will not heal;
no door that enough love will not open;
no gulf that enough love will not bridge;
no wall that enough love will not throw down;
no sin that enough love will not redeem...
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble;
how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake.
A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
If only you could love enough you would be
the happiest and most powerful being in the world...
~Emmet Fox~

"Love is friendship set to music."
~E. Joseph Crossmann~

"Of all the earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart."
~Henry Ward Beecher~

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

"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love"

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
~Pearl Bailey~

"Sex is an emotion in motion."
~Mae West~

"Love is a fire.
But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house,
you can never tell."
~Joan Crawford~

Lots of people
want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want
is someone who will
take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
~Oprah Winfrey~

Let the world stop turning,
Let the sun stop burning,
Let them tell me love's not worth going through.
If it all falls apart,
I will know deep in my heart,
The only dream that mattered had come true
...In this life I was loved by you.
~ Bette Midler ~

Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
In the beginning a flame, very pretty,
Often hot and fierce,
But still only light and flickering.
As love grows older,
Our hearts mature
And our love becomes as coals,
Deep-burning and unquenchable.
~ Bruce Lee ~

The Time I've lost in wooing,
In watching and pursuing
The light that lies
In women's eyes
Has been my heart's undoing.
~Thomas Moore~

Time is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity.
~Henry Van Dyke~

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times,
in life after life, in age after age forever.

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate;
He who loves, finds the door open.
~Rabindranath Tagore~

Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within the reach of every hand.
~Mother Teresa~

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~Lao Tzu~

"Love is a portion of the soul itself,
and it is of the same nature as the
celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise."

"Life is a flower of which love is the honey."

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

"The reduction of the universe to a single being,
the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love."
~Victor Hugo~

"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."
~ Benjamin Franklin ~

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly
and without law, and must be plucked where it is found,
and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."
~D.H.Lawrence~

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death
~ Thomas Mann ~

Life and hope for the world
are to be found only in the deeds of love.
~
It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you
~Bertrand Russell~

Love is that condition in which
The happiness of another person
Is essential to your own.
~Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land ~

To get the full value of joy
You must have someone to divide it with.

After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve
in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden
with her than inside it without her.
~Mark Twain~
 

For one human being to love another:
that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks;
the ultimate, the last test and proof,
the work for which all other work is but preparation.
~Rainer Maria Rilke~

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters,
the former makes its exit.
~Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)~

There is always some madness in love.
But there is also always some reason in madness.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love"

"How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics
so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
THAT'S relativity."
~Albert Einstein Quotes~

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret;
it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery~

THROUGH LOVE all that is bitter will be sweet
Through Love all that is copper will be gold.
Through Love all dregs will turn to purest wine
Through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
Through Love the dead will all become alive.
Through Love the king will turn into a slave!

---

Passion makes the old medicine new:
Passion lops off the bough of weariness.
Passion is the elixir that renews:
how can there be weariness
when passion is present?
Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue:
seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

---

The intellectual is always showing off,
the lover is always getting lost.
The intellectual runs away.
afraid of drowning;
the whole business of love
is to drown in the sea.
Intellectuals plan their repose;
lovers are ashamed to rest.
The lover is always alone.
even surrounded by people;
like water and oil, he remains apart.
The man who goes to the trouble
of giving advice to a lover
get nothing. He's mocked by passion.
Love is like musk. It attracts attention.
Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.
~Jalaluddin Rumi~

it may not always be so; and I say
that if your lips,which I have loved, should
touch another's, and your dear strong fingers clutch
his heart, as mine in time not far away;
if on another's face your sweet hair lay
in such a silence as I know, or such
great writhing words as, uttering overmuch,
stand helplessly before the spirit at bay;
if this should be, i say if this should be-
you of my heart, send me a little word;
that I may go unto him, and take his hands,
saying, Accept all happiness from me.
Then shall I turn my face, and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands.
unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home
...lovers alone wear sunlight.

---

yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skilfully curled)
all worlds

---

"... here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)..."

---

may i feel said he
i'll squeal said she
just once said he
it's fun said she
may i touch said he
how much said she
a lot said he
why not said she
(let's go said he
not too far said she
what's too far said he
where you are said she
may i stay said he
which way said she
like this said he
if you kiss said she
may i move said he
is it love said she
if you're willing said he
but you're killing said she
but it's life said he
but your wife said she
now said he)
ow said she
tiptop said he
don't stop said she
oh no said he
go slow said she cccome? said he
ummm said she
you're divine! said he
you are Mine said she

---

i carry your heart with me,
i carry it in my heart and i'm never without it.
anywhere i go, you go, my dear.
and whatever is done, by only me, is your doing, my darling.
i fear no fear for you are my fate, my sweet.
i want no world for beautiful, you are my world my true.
it's you or whatever a moon has always meant,
and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the trree called life
which grows higher and higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide
and this is the wonder that is keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart,
i carry it in my heart.

"i don't know what it is about you that closes and opens, only something in me understands
the voice in your eyes is deeper than all roses."
~ee cummings~

Existence=Sex & Passion

Glistening moonlight caresses the dewed silk petals
of a lusciousblood red rose, yearning to be experienced,
her sweet lusty fragrance uninhibited and irresistible.
Explosive fiery passion bursts from the belly of our
powerful undulating sun gripping our fertile mother
with a gentle intimate embrace, seeding, warming, feeding, breathing.
Chaotic fluctuating spasms of energy pop in and out
of observable space/time, penetrating our linear version of experience
from the unlimited, teasing reality, appeasing subjectivism, achieving bliss.
From floral ecstasy to planetary intercourse,
atomic sodomy to parallel universal foreplay,
life is sex... passion, orgasm and creation.
Copyright©Donovan

the wait

It seemed
like years
before
I picked
a bouquet
of kisses
off her mouth
and put them
into a dawn-colored vase
in
my
heart.
But
the wait
was worth it.

Because
I
was
in love.
~Richard Brautigan~

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
~Erich Fromm~

Faults are thick where love is thin
~English Proverb~

"Nothing spoils the taste of peanut butter like unrequited love".
~Charlie Brown~

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."
~John Lennon~

"And in the end, the love we take will be equal to the love we make."
~The Beatles~

Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
But in your dreams whatever they be
Dream a little dream of me.
~The Mamas and The Papas~

"People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense."
~Ken Kesey~

"It doesn't matter who you love, or how you love, but that you love"
~Rod McKuen~

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
~Sophocles~

The first duty of love - is to listen
~Paul Tillich~

Any time not spent on love is wasted.
~Torquato Tasso~

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
~Robert Browning~

The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud
is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
~Anais Nin~

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
~Henry Miller~

"Love is a great beautifier."
~Louisa May Alcott~

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist`s palette,
which provides the meaning of life and art.
It is the color of love.
~Marc Chagall~

"Do you love me because I am beautiful,
or am I beautiful because you love me?"
~Cinderella~

''Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.''
~Jeanne Moreau~

"Love is metaphysical gravity."
~R Buckminster Fuller~

"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."
~Blaise Pascal~

"Love conquers all."
~Virgil~

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking.
The one is the shadow of the other.
~Carl Jung~

You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you.
~Dylan Thomas~

"If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else.
If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."
~Sir James M. Barrie~

"I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
~
"Love is the only gold."
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson~

"Men always want to be a woman's first love--
women like to be a man's last romance."

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself,
and one always ends by deceiving others.
That is what the world calls a romance.
~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless
garden when the flowers are dead.The consciousness of
loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life
that nothing else can bring.""Who, being loved, is poor?"
~Oscar Wilde~

"Love is an ideal thing,  marriage a real thing;  a confusion of the
real with the ideal never goes unpunished
~Goethe~

"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."
~Woodrow Wyatt~

What greater thing is there for two human souls than
to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each
other in all labour, to minister to each other in all
sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be
one with each other in the silent unspoken memories?
"I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved."
~George Elliot~

Oh when I was in love with you,
Then I was clean and brave,
And miles around the wonder grew
How well did I behave.
And now the fancy passes by,
And nothing will remain,
And miles around they'll say that
I Am quite myself again.
~A.E.Housman~

"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
~
He felt now that he was not simply close to her,
but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
~Leo Tolstoy~

"LOVE: The irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired."
~Robert Frost~

"Treasure the love you receive above all.
It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished."
~Og Mandino~

Love has features which pierce all hearts,
he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved.
He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
~
"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature
and embroidered by imagination."
~Voltaire~

"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods."
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
~Plato~

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires,
and a touch that never hurts."
~Charles Dickens~

"If I know what love is, it is because of you."
~
"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go"
~Herman Hesse~

Wild Nights! Wild Nights! were I with thee
Wild Nights would be our luxury.
Futile the winds to a heart in port, Gone with the compass
Gone with the chart--Rowing in Eden.
Ah the Sea! Might I but moor-- Tonight in thee
~Emily Dickinson~

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons,
longing, as all individuals do,
to overcome the separateness and isolation
to which we are all heir because we are individuals,
can participate in a relationship that, for the moment,
 is not of two isolated selves but a union
~Rollo May~

I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he
asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first
I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so
he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was
going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes
~James Joyce~

One Perfect Rose

A single flow'r he sent me, since we met.
All tenderly his messenger he chose;
Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet-
One perfect rose.

I knew the language of the floweret;
"My fragile leaves," it said, "his heart enclose."
Love long has taken for his amulet
One perfect rose.

Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
One perfect rose.

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

To My Valentine

Let's take a vacation
From the sordid ramifications
On the television Station.

I`ll  treat you royal
My passions boil.
We'll be mysterious.
I yearn delirious!
I`ll make good food to eat.
And for dessert
A special  treat.
Loving Kisses,
Hot and Sweet.
We'll  play awhile and smile.
~Nicole~

Children's Thoughts on Love

"I think you're supposed to get shot with an arrow or something,
but the rest of it isn't supposed to be so painful."
... Manuel, age 8

"Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too."
...Greg, age 8

"No one is sure why it happens, but I heard it has something to do with
how you smell...that's why perfume and deodorant is so popular."
...Mae, age 9

"One way is to take the girl  out to eat. Make sure it's something she likes to eat.
French fries usually works for me."
... Bart, age 9

"Don't do things like have smelly, green sneakers. You might get attention,
but attention ain't the same thing as love."
... Alonzo, age 9 "

When a person gets kissed for the first time, they fall down
and they don't get up for at least an hour."
... Wendy, age 8

"If you want to be loved by somebody who isn't
already in your family, it doesn't hurt to be beautiful."
...Anita, age 8

"I look at kissing like this: Kissing is fine if you like it,
but it's a free country and nobody should be forced to do it."
...Michael, age 8

"Don't say you love somebody and then change your mind ...
Love isn't like picking what movie you want to watch."
... Natalie, age 9

"I'm not rushing into being in love.
I'm finding fourth grade hard enough."
...Regina, age 10

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Tender Is Legal In The Eternal State Of Love

Accepted payment towards all Karmic debt.

"There is no remedy for love but to love more." ~ Thoreau

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