If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
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If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly, that you feel you could die of it!
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.
I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
What force is more potent than love?
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
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