I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.
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I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.
Just be yourself, there is no one better.
If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
If you're lucky enough to be different, never change.
It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.
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