Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.
Oscar Hammerstein IiRead
A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
Interpretation
Love and creativity require action to manifest.
This quote emphasizes that true expressions of love and creativity come to life only through our active participation. Like a bell that requires ringing or a song that needs to be sung, love finds its significance when we choose to share it with others instead of keeping it to ourselves.
In practice
During a wedding ceremony to emphasize the importance of sharing love.
Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.
There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
I'm not going to run, I'm going to stand here and watch. Every blow will cut into my heart, and tell me who and what you are.
The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.
All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.
Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.
My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.
Absence - that common cure of love.
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