“Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarely
Went to their deaths more proud than this one went.
Some nights of apprehension and hot weeping
I will confess; but that's permitted me;
Day dried my eyes; I was not one for keeping
Rubbed in a cage a wing that would be free.
If I had loved you less or played you slyly
I might have held you for a summer more,
But at the cost of words I value highly,
And no such summer as the one before.
Should I outlive this anguish, and men do,
I shall have only good to say of you.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
― Marcus Aurelius
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
― Martin Luther
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
― Rabindranath Tagore
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
― Charles Dickens
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
― Jane Austen
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
― Honore De Balzac
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
― Henry Ward Beecher
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
― Robert Green Ingersoll
One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world.
― James Lowell
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
― George Bernard Shaw
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“Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
― Mark Twain
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
― Chanakya
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
― Robert Frost
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
― Carl Jung
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
― T. S. Eliot
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.
― Descartes
The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
― Dr. Seuss
“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
― Edmund Burke
“What is reading but silent conversation?”
― Walter Savage Landor
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“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes
“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
― Anaïs Nin
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent van Gogh
“Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy. ”
― Ray Charles
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.”
― Richard Bach
“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
― John Keats
“I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats
“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it...”
― Wilferd Peterson
“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
― Ingrid Bergman
“Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.”
― Mario Benedetti
“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
― Frida Kahlo
“If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone’s expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence.”
― Hope Solo
“By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”
― Virginia Woolf
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
― A.A. Milne
“You know that place between sleeping and awake, that place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always think of you.”
― J.M. Barrie
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“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
― Mother Teresa
“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”
― Mother Teresa
“Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”
― Rabindranath Tagore
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“You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.”
― Anaïs Nin
“When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone, attractions of physical beauty. Have they based their love on each other's thoughts? Who can weary of thoughts which change every day?”
― Anaïs Nin
“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”
― Paulo Coelho
“You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.”
― Anaïs Nin
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wisel
“It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.”
― Khalil Gibran
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”
― Charles M. Schulz
“I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.”
― Anaïs Nin
“The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.”
― Anaïs Nin
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"Travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.
— Pico Iyer"
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When love beckons to you, follow him,
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarely
Went to their deaths more proud than this one went.
Some nights of apprehension and hot weeping
I will confess; but that's permitted me;
Day dried my eyes; I was not one for keeping
Rubbed in a cage a wing that would be free.
If I had loved you less or played you slyly
I might have held you for a summer more,
But at the cost of words I value highly,
And no such summer as the one before.
Should I outlive this anguish, and men do,
I shall have only good to say of you.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
― Marcus Aurelius
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
― Martin Luther
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
― Rabindranath Tagore
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
― Charles Dickens
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
― Jane Austen
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
― Honore De Balzac
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
― Henry Ward Beecher
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
― Robert Green Ingersoll
One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world.
― James Lowell
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
― George Bernard Shaw
----------------------------------------------
“Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
― Mark Twain
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
― Chanakya
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
― Robert Frost
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
― Carl Jung
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
― T. S. Eliot
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.
― Descartes
The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
― Dr. Seuss
“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
― Edmund Burke
“What is reading but silent conversation?”
― Walter Savage Landor
----------------------------------------------
“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes
“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
― Anaïs Nin
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent van Gogh
“Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy. ”
― Ray Charles
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.”
― Richard Bach
“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
― John Keats
“I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats
“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it...”
― Wilferd Peterson
“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
― Ingrid Bergman
“Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.”
― Mario Benedetti
“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
― Frida Kahlo
“If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone’s expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence.”
― Hope Solo
“By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”
― Virginia Woolf
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
― A.A. Milne
“You know that place between sleeping and awake, that place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always think of you.”
― J.M. Barrie
----------------------------------------------
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
― Mother Teresa
“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”
― Mother Teresa
“Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”
― Rabindranath Tagore
----------------------------------------------
“You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.”
― Anaïs Nin
“When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone, attractions of physical beauty. Have they based their love on each other's thoughts? Who can weary of thoughts which change every day?”
― Anaïs Nin
“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”
― Paulo Coelho
“You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.”
― Anaïs Nin
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wisel
“It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.”
― Khalil Gibran
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”
― Charles M. Schulz
“I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.”
― Anaïs Nin
“The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.”
― Anaïs Nin
----------------------------------------------
"Travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.
— Pico Iyer"
----------------------------------------------
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 in 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 your earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you free 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 scared feast.
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 find you worthy, directs your course.
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 in 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 your earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you free 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 scared feast.
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 find you worthy, directs your course.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like the 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.
― Khalil Gibran/ The Prophet
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like the 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.
― Khalil Gibran/ The Prophet
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