The Anecdotal Life Part. 108
These are collected quotes for Valentine's Day --helpful and otherwise.
" Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all barriers within yourself that you have built against it." Rumi
(Try telling that to someone who has been looking..
However, it is one of the same postulates of the EST movement that emanated from California and was prevalent in the seventies and eighties.)
"I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't." Somerset Maugham
"The course of true love never did run smooth."William Shakespeare
Here's a heart breaker that may be all too familiar to most of us.
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens up your chest and it opens up your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor so that nothing can hurt you, then some stupid person, no different from any other stupid person wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It cuts out and leaves you crying in the darkness so a simple phrase like " maybe we should just be friends" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside- you- and -rips-you apart- pain. I hate love." Neil Gaiman This is a person that you might not want to mention barriers too ... at least for a while.
Now (quickly) to a few uppers.
" A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge." Thoma Carlyle
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." Plato
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." Lao Tzu
"Can miles truly separate you from friends?.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?" Richard Bach ( I always thought Richard Bach was somewhat full of himself. Try asking a military wife and family their take on that quote. Then stand back.)
Now switching back to a few blatant cynics.
" Love is the period time between meeting a beautiful woman or man and discovering he or she looks like a trout." anonymous ( or I couldn't find the author. He may be on the run.)
" Before I met my husband I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times." Rita Rudner
This is not a perfectly exact quote, but good enough to get the point across. "There are two tragedies in life my friend. One is to find your love and to keep her and the other is to find your love and to lose her." George Bernard Shaw
I think this quote is by Henny Youngman, who had been married an unconscionable amount of times. " I don't know why I don't just find a woman I don't like and give her a house."
One last and predictable cynic.." A pair of powerful spectacles is sometimes sufficient to cure a person in love." Friedrich Nietzsche
A few more uppers to satisfy dreamers and yay-sayers.
"Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must." Mother Theresa
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."Ingrid Berman
"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea." Honore de Balzac
"Come live in my heart and pay no rent." Samuel Lover
Now to the advice. "
"Don't let your worries ( in our case, love worries) get the best of you. Remember Moses started out as a basket case." Don't know who said it.
"We shall be called to account for all the permitted pleasures we failed to enjoy." Don't know who.
"kisses are a better fate than wisdom." e.e. cummings
This is my favorite quote and following that, quotes by my favorite author.
"Two people do not have to agree on what's right to be together.... They just have to want to be together. If that sounds simple, try it sometime."
from DAS ENERGI.
James Thurber wanders through one whole chapter on the difference between love and passion. Basically he hadn't a clue.
Here's his take on love. "Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person."
"Love is what you've been through with somebody."
"The most dangerous food is wedding cake."
I saw a bit on TV that the average person has 28 first kisses. It may be nice to know you're probably average or you can have a lot of fun catching up. So "Good night and Good luck" and HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!
Copyright: February 10, 2011
" Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all barriers within yourself that you have built against it." Rumi
(Try telling that to someone who has been looking..
However, it is one of the same postulates of the EST movement that emanated from California and was prevalent in the seventies and eighties.)
"I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't." Somerset Maugham
"The course of true love never did run smooth."William Shakespeare
Here's a heart breaker that may be all too familiar to most of us.
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens up your chest and it opens up your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor so that nothing can hurt you, then some stupid person, no different from any other stupid person wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It cuts out and leaves you crying in the darkness so a simple phrase like " maybe we should just be friends" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside- you- and -rips-you apart- pain. I hate love." Neil Gaiman This is a person that you might not want to mention barriers too ... at least for a while.
Now (quickly) to a few uppers.
" A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge." Thoma Carlyle
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." Plato
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." Lao Tzu
"Can miles truly separate you from friends?.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?" Richard Bach ( I always thought Richard Bach was somewhat full of himself. Try asking a military wife and family their take on that quote. Then stand back.)
Now switching back to a few blatant cynics.
" Love is the period time between meeting a beautiful woman or man and discovering he or she looks like a trout." anonymous ( or I couldn't find the author. He may be on the run.)
" Before I met my husband I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times." Rita Rudner
This is not a perfectly exact quote, but good enough to get the point across. "There are two tragedies in life my friend. One is to find your love and to keep her and the other is to find your love and to lose her." George Bernard Shaw
I think this quote is by Henny Youngman, who had been married an unconscionable amount of times. " I don't know why I don't just find a woman I don't like and give her a house."
One last and predictable cynic.." A pair of powerful spectacles is sometimes sufficient to cure a person in love." Friedrich Nietzsche
A few more uppers to satisfy dreamers and yay-sayers.
"Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must." Mother Theresa
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."Ingrid Berman
"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea." Honore de Balzac
"Come live in my heart and pay no rent." Samuel Lover
Now to the advice. "
"Don't let your worries ( in our case, love worries) get the best of you. Remember Moses started out as a basket case." Don't know who said it.
"We shall be called to account for all the permitted pleasures we failed to enjoy." Don't know who.
"kisses are a better fate than wisdom." e.e. cummings
This is my favorite quote and following that, quotes by my favorite author.
"Two people do not have to agree on what's right to be together.... They just have to want to be together. If that sounds simple, try it sometime."
from DAS ENERGI.
James Thurber wanders through one whole chapter on the difference between love and passion. Basically he hadn't a clue.
Here's his take on love. "Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person."
"Love is what you've been through with somebody."
"The most dangerous food is wedding cake."
I saw a bit on TV that the average person has 28 first kisses. It may be nice to know you're probably average or you can have a lot of fun catching up. So "Good night and Good luck" and HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!
Copyright: February 10, 2011
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