“He felt as though he were endowed with a thousand senses — each one keenly alive and sensitive to the smallest touch, and there was a pulsation in his blood that was new and beyond his control — a something that beat wildly in his heart at the sound of Thelma's voice or the passing flutter of the wh…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“He understood at last what poets meant by their melodious musings, woven into golden threads of song — he seemed to have grasped some hitherto unguessed secret of his being — a secret that filled him with as much strange pain as pleasure.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“She has never heard me whisper into her ear or come up with a witty reply. She has never heard me ask a question or speak my mind, to anyone.”— Jamison Hill, nytimes.com
“What is a kiss if I can’t devote entire personal essays to understanding what it meant, what I want, where we’re going? What is a kiss if it doesn’t make me ask questions?”— Ella Dawson, femsplain.com
“With inexpressible delight you wade out into the grassy sun-lake, feeling yourself contained in one of Nature's most sacred chambers, withdrawn from the sterner influences of the mountains, secure from all intrusion, secure from yourself, free in the universal beauty. And notwithstanding the scene i…”— John Muir, amazon.com
“You can fight only for something you love. You can love only what you respect. You can respect only what you know.”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“I can fight only for something that I love. I can love only what I respect. And in order to respect a thing I must at least have some knowledge of it.”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“It is more difficult to undermine faith than knowledge, love succumbs to change less than to respect, hatred is more durable than aversion, and at all times the driving force of the most important changes in this world has been found less in a scientific knowledge animating the masses, but rather in…”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“Love isn't safe, its a dangerous road, There's no choice, but to leave life to chance.”— Hafiz of Persia, mystery-school.net
“If by misfortune I've missed the Beloved's presence, then bless me with the dust from somewhere the Beloved walked.”— Hafiz of Persia, mystery-school.net
“When I long for you, I don't want wine, may the barrels rot and the tavern age. Even if it's the wine of heaven, throw it away! Wine has no purpose if the Beloved is not there.”— Hafiz of Persia, mystery-school.net
“In the Book of Life, my name is eternal. No one dies whose heart is on fire with Love.”— Hafiz of Persia, mystery-school.net
“I long for you, even as your words of rejection still sound in the air; Anything sounds sweet, if your lips say it.”— Hafiz of Persia, mystery-school.net
“Pass around the cup fair maiden, Because Love seemed easy at first, But now I see how difficult it is.”— Hafiz of Persia, mystery-school.net
“Run freely into the sky meadow. If I whistled, She would turn her head and look at me. If I then waved my arms, She would come back wagging a marvelous tail Of stars.”— Hafiz of Persia, peacefulrivers.homestead.com
“Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly And wants to rip to shreds All your erroneous notions of truth.”— Hafiz of Persia, peacefulrivers.homestead.com
“Only a Perfect One Who is always Laughing at the word Two Can make you know Of Love.”— Hafiz of Persia, peacefulrivers.homestead.com
“I asked him next, ‘And beauties' curls That tumble down so sinuously, What is their meaning? Whence do they come?’ ‘Hafez,’ the sage replied to me, ‘It's your distracted, lovelorn heart That asks these questions constantly.’”— Hafiz of Persia, poetryfoundation.org
“We may choose a different path on how we get there, which Sex and the City normalized for many, but ultimately, many of us want to end up in the comfort of familiarity.”— Rory Riley Topping, medium.com
“The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.”— Heinrich Himmler, en.wikiquote.org