Love

"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has eased to love."

- Oscar Wilde

I'm not sure who gave me the advice but someone told me the best thing to remember about being in love is...

NEVER make anyone your necessity who has chosen to make you their option...

Made alot of sense to me, but, unfortunately, just because something makes sense doesn't mean I always listen.

You can pick your nose and you can pick nose of the one you love, but you can't pick the ones you love.

When love beckons to you follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself. He threshes you to make you naked. He sifts you to free you from your husks. He grinds you to whiteness. He kneads you until you are pliant; And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.

When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, I am in the heart of God." And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:

To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.

To know the pain of too much tenderness.

To be wounded by your own understanding of love;

And to bleed willingly and joyfully.

To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;

To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;

To return home at eventide with gratitude;

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

Kahlil Gibran
From "The Prophet"

Wasn't sure where to put this one but a quote from a song that has stayed with me:
"i never said a thing to hurt you, it's what i didn't say that made you cry"
- - Fenix Tx

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all is as ridicules as saying, it is better to drive a ferrari off a cliff then never to have driven one at all.

George Carlin

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

"Who, being loved, is poor?" - Oscar Wilde

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"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be." - Anton Chekov

Murphy was right in love as in all else: Anything that can go wrong, will.

yeh but does it have to be so bumpy sometimes.But then again if it wasn't bumpy there wouldn't be make-up sex would there!

I'm a beatles fan so I have few songs I could throw into the mix.

"All you need is love"
"P.S. I love you"

There are more but I do not want to burden you all with all the songs.

There are many songs in all form of music, bible, poems, etc.

They are all good.

“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
–James Baldwin

This World Which Is Made of Our Love for Emptiness

Praise to the emptiness that blanks out existence. Existence:
This place made from our love for that emptiness!

Yet somehow comes emptiness,
this existence goes.

Praise to that happening, over and over!
For years I pulled my own existence out of emptiness.

Then one swoop, one swing of the arm,
that work is over.

Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope,
free of mountainous wanting.

The here-and-now mountain is a tiny piece of a piece of straw
blown off into emptiness.

These words I'm saying so much begin to lose meaning:
Existence, emptiness, mountain, straw:

Words and what they try to say swept
out the window, down the slant of the roof.

--Rumi--

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Mae West once said:

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, love more, and all good things will be yours.

- Swedish Proverb