Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.
Oscar Hammerstein IiRead
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
Interpretation
The quote explores the relationship between love and beauty, questioning which comes first.
This quote reflects on the complex nature of love and attraction, suggesting that beauty may be influenced by the affection one feels. It raises an important philosophical question about the nature of attraction: do we find someone beautiful because we love them, or do we love them because they possess beauty? This interplay invites deeper contemplation on the essence of relationships and the subjective perception of attractiveness.
In practice
During a romantic dinner, one might say this quote to spark a thoughtful discussion about love and beauty.
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.
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!
The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street cafΓ©.
Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call,_x000D_ _x000D_ And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ ...; I long to drink of his blood, the gift of unending love.
Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.
But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.
Oh, I believe that there is no away; that no love, no life, goes ever from us; it goes as He went, that it may come again, deeper and closer and surer, and be with us always, even to the end of the world.
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
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