Through love....

Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
-Rumi

Crazy as the other...

What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
-  Barbra Streisand

Secrets...

Behind the most beautiful eyes, 
lay secrets 
deeper and darker 
than the mysterious sea.

-yld 

Where am I going??

        I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.

C. JoyBell C.

Without expectations...

You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation. 
- Janelle Monae

Obsession...

     Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.
Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.
And without feet I can make my way to you,
without a mouth I can swear your name.

Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you
with my heart as with a hand.
Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat.
And if you consume my brain with fire,
I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Anticipation of kiss...

        He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.

John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

I fell for its spell...

        I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did, and so I wanted to keep to myself.
        You hide to protect yourself.

Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

Same answers...

    Never give up on someone. Sometimes the answers you are looking for are the same answers another person is looking for. Two people searching together are always better than one person alone.

Shannon L. Alder

Essence of beauty..

There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.

- Steve Maraboli

I take risks..

"I take risks, sometimes patients die. But not taking risks causes more patients to die, so I guess my biggest problem is I've been cursed with the ability to do the math."

- House M.D. 

Don't go....

And he understands. He understands why people hold hands: he'd always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But it's about maintaining contact. It is about speaking without words. It is about I want you with me and don't go.      

Cassandra Clare

Connecting threads..

  Everyone knows how to love, because we are all born with that gift. Some people have a natural talent for it, but the majority of us have to re-learn, to remember how to love, and everyone, without exception, needs to burn on the bonfire of past emotions, to relive certain joys and griefs, certain ups and downs, until they can see the connecting thread that exists behind each new encounter; because there is a connecting thread.

Paulo Coelho's, Eleven Minutes

Woman's heart...

        A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

Shannon L. Alder

Hate and love...

Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears. 

- William Hazlitt

When the truth is ugly...

When the truth is ugly, people try to keep it hidden, because they know if revealed, the damage it will do. So they conceal it within sturdy walls or they place it behind closed doors or they obscure it with clever disguises but truth, no matter how ugly, always emerges. And someone we care about always ends up getting hurt. And someone else will revel in their pain and that's the ugliest truth of all.

Mary Alice

Pull yourself...

    Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

Elizabeth Taylor

Infinity..

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation. 

- Michael Jackson

A part of you...

There's a part of you - the born-again part, your spirit - that's dead to sin. That's why it bothers you now when you sin. The 'wilderness' part of you - your soul - is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will. 

- Joyce Meyer

In each other..

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. 
- Rumi

Illusion...

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. 

- Orson Welles

Heights and depths...

I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.

-Leni Riefenstahl

Surrender..

        I know you not quite well
Yet I foolishly surrender my mind to you. 
Slowly and carefully you have cast a spell
Now my virgin heart only longs for you. 
There is no need to push, I am already falling. 
Once proudly tall, I’m no longer standing. 
Knowing well that I am doomed to misery,
I will roll the dice and take delight in my suffering.

Kamand Kojouri