"Come to the edge", he said. They said, "We are afraid". "Come to the edge", he said. They came. He pushed them … And they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

Genius is the ability
to put into effect what is on your mind.


F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety nine percent perspiration.


Thomas Edison

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To love is to return to a home we never left,
to remember who we are.


Sam Keen

Without warning,
As a whirlwind swoops upon an oak,
Love shakes my heart.


Sappho

Never, in sooth, does the lover seek without being sought by his beloved. When the lightning of love has shot into this heart, know that there is love in that heart.

Rumi

Love is an act of imagination. For some of us, it will be the great creative triumph of our lives. In its very nature as an act of the imagination lies the power for both good and ill, for it can indeed exploit the lovers illusions or delusions, but alternately can lead the lover to transcending truths.

Ethel Spector Person

Falling in love is a creative act, we endow the beloved with all the magical powers of having generated this marvellous feeling in ourselves - and forget that it is we who have tapped our own creative force.

Penny Thornton

Listen to desire as you listen to
the wind among the trees.


J. Krishnamurti

Romantic love is not an aberration, it is the heady stuff that launches ships and makes the world go round. It is a powerful taste of the divine as we experience it in one another. It is also the necessary vision that allows one to be crazy and daring enough to make a commitment.

Gertrude Mueller Nelson

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of Being and ideal Grace ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Falling in love is actually a powerful experience of feeling the Universe move through you. The other person has become a channel for you, a catalyst that triggers you to open up to the love, beauty and compassion within.

Shakti Gawain

For two personalities to meet is like mixing two chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

The people we are in relationship with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors reflecting their beliefs. So relationship is one of the most powerful tools for growth. If we look honestly at our relationships we can see so much about how we have created them.

Shakti Gawain

The essential ingredients for relationship are affection and commitment. If it is romance that we seek, it is romance that we shall have, but not commitment and not relationship.

Robert A. Johnson

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that they themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

Of all the misconceptions about love the most powerful and pervasive is the belief that "falling in love" is love or at least one of the manifestations of love.

M. Scott Peck

To love is to love the person. It is not to love the good or the perfect things to be found in that person.

Georgette Butcher

Young love is a flame - very pretty - often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beecher

Set me as seal upon your heart, As a ring upon your arm; For love is as strong as death. Its flashes are flashes of fire, A flame of the Eternal.

Song of Songs viii 6-7

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Marriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another.

John Pierrakos

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Anthony Storr