Spoken word of love

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair.
We’d never have a friendship.
We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical.
Well, that’s nonsense.
You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on t (Ray Bradbury)

Love can never grow old,
Locks may lose their brown and gold,
Cheeks may fade and hollow grow,
But the hearts that love will know
Never winter’s frost and chill,
Summer’s warmth is in them still. (Anonymous)

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip. (Jonathan Carroll, “Outside the Dog Museum”)

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering mak (Woody Allen)

The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done. (Anonymous)