If You Do Not Love Me I Shall Not Be Loved If I Do Not Love You I Shall Not Love~Samuel Beckett Love is always being given where it is Not required~E.M.Forster Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's~Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein Loving Someone Who Doesn't Love You Back Is Like Reaching For A star. You Know You'll Never Make It, But You Just Keep On Trying~Unknown The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love~W.Somerset Maugham Each night, the Moon kisses secretly the Lover who counts the stars~Rumi The course of true love never did run smooth~William Shakespeare I can but give a failing heart And weary eyes of pain, A faded mouth that cannot smile And may not laugh again~Elizabeth Siddall (from Her poem Worn Out) There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love~Washington Irving It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few~Pythagoras Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl~Rumi If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world~Deepak Chopra But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls~Khalil Gibran Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born~Deepak Chopra The Optimist Sees the Rose and Not its Thorns; the Pessimist Stares at the Thorns, Oblivious of the Rose~Khalil Gibran You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love~Sri Chinmoy In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't~Blaise Pascal Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit~e e cummings A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain~Abraham Cowley LOVE, thou art victor in fight; thou mak'st all things afraid; Thou couchest thee softly at night on the cheeks of a maid; Thou passest the bounds of the sea, and the folds of the fields; To thee the immortal, to thee the ephemeral yields; Thou maddenest them that possess thee; thou turnest astray The souls of the just, to oppress them, out of the way; Thou hast kindled amongst us pride, and the quarrel of kin; Thou art lord, by the eyes of a bride, and the love-light therein; Thou sittest assessor with Right; her kingdom is thine, Who sports with invincible might, Aphrodite divine THE POWER OF LOVE~Sophocles