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seanx
31-08-2007, 05:28 PM
He who bends to himself a Joy
Doth the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the Joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity's sunrise.
Blake, William


A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through
her ears. Woodrow Wyatt (b. 1918), British journalist. To the Point,
"The Ears Have It" (1981).

Wyatt's reasoning, apropos of women, was that "what is said
to them and what they believe about a man's status
is usually more important than the superficiality of good looks."


Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by
marriage.

Dr. Karl Bowman


Love is the delusion that one woman differs from
another.

H. L. Mencken

To the world you may be one person, but to one
person you may be the world.

Unknown

I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common
man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There
are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be
forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul,
and to me, this has always been enough.

Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it
comes late in life.
Lord Byron

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her
above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be
yours.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning
a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light
and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our
love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

~Bruce Lee


We always know what it is that we need from others. We often know quickly what others want from us. But finding out what it is that others may subtly make us feel we require from them (and which eventually makes us dependent upon them) is not so obvious. Love is not part of a transaction. It is the most PRIVATE thing there is or can be, in the full sense of that word. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, and don't continue deluding yourself. Forget what the priests have said, and mummy and daddy, and all those without a clue who, in their egregious error, have made the world what it is today. You won't get it from the girl or the boy, the man or the woman, or from Jesus, or Allah. So stop looking for it in where it is not to be found! Realize that this very looking and seeking arises because of its absence within. The deer smells the tree bark for the musk produced by its own glands. You could laugh at that paradox. There is a greater madness abroad: Men looking for love from a stranger, for that which only his own heart and mind can produce. This is the secret of man's delirium????

- Mtsar (from the blog)

brotherapostate
31-08-2007, 05:31 PM
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through
her ears. Woodrow Wyatt (b. 1918), British journalist. To the Point,
"The Ears Have It" (1981).

Didn't Big Keith from the Office offer this wisdom to Tim as well?:D

seanx
31-08-2007, 05:57 PM
Well, then it must be true then!!

it's amazing from all these quotes how cynical some writers are and
how positive others are.

brotherapostate
31-08-2007, 06:05 PM
lol.

Yes, some quotes are timeless. Thanks for the post.

sean~infinte
31-08-2007, 08:32 PM
hey seanx lovin the positive threads keep em up some brill quotes are out there

gorana
31-08-2007, 09:05 PM
My favorite one...


If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Kahlil Gibran

Love,

G.

seanx
31-08-2007, 10:50 PM
Gorana, yes that is one of the best.

Interesting to see what people regard as the most positve
uplifting quote compared to the most cynical.

Definitely the most pessimistic is either Dr. Karl Bowman's

'Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by
marriage.'

Or H. L. Mencken's ( this guy was a cynical bastard, but
still is he totally wrong?) :

'Love is the delusion that one woman differs from
another'.

And the most positive: probably the one you quoted.

synergy777
31-08-2007, 11:53 PM
kahlil gibran is a very profound writer.

Khalil Gibran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.kahlil.org/

http://www.arab2.com/gibran/

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/k/kahlil_gibran.html

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Kahlil Gibran

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Kahlil Gibran

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Kahlil Gibran

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil Gibran

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Kahlil Gibran

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Kahlil Gibran

i like albert camus too.

smoking oceanus
01-09-2007, 12:45 AM
This one means alot to me..



Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live - Norman Cousins

lydia78
01-09-2007, 11:22 AM
seanx said;

Lord Byron

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her
above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be
yours.



Hello....:)

Love the thread seanx....sweet as mate, especially the above statement, very true:D

Here's one of my faves

We Die and are Reborn a thousandfold within this one life...embrace the seasons of the soul.

carlg1212
01-09-2007, 02:08 PM
I'm swearing off women if the next time, they throw out any of my shite. "Oh, that old Led Zeppelin t-shirt? That was old and had holes in it, so I threw it out". Dammit!!!

gorana
01-09-2007, 07:56 PM
I'm swearing off women if the next time, they throw out any of my shite. "Oh, that old Led Zeppelin t-shirt? That was old and had holes in it, so I threw it out". Dammit!!!

*Giggles* right right, but if you complain on any of her clothing items, she immedialtelly thinks you don't love her any more. :)

Love,

G.

nuit
01-09-2007, 08:02 PM
"Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people"

Aleister Crowley


"Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty"

Aleister Crowley. .