The uncommitted life isn't worth living.

The uncommitted life isn't worth living.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with read more

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking read more

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.