As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization
Gather therefore the Rose, whilst yet is prime, For soon comes age, that will her pride deflower: Gather the Rose of love, whilst yet is time.
Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.
Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.
One life is worth no more or less than any other
For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere.
I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read.
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.
One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.
You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea.
We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.
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