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Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
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Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Passion is destructive; if it does not destroy, it dies.
I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love. And I have seen too much hate. I've seen too much hate on the faces of sheriffs in the South. I've seen hate on the faces of too many Klansmen and too many White Citizens Councilors in the South to want to hate myself, because every time I see it, I know that it does something to their faces and their personalities and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.
We wish to be loved as we ourselves would love. Any other way makes as uncomfortable. We respond with doubt and suspicion. We misinterpret the signs. We do not understand the language. We accuse. We assert that the other person does not love us. But perhaps he merely loves us in some idiosyncratic way that we fail to recognize.
I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It's very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.
Will you love me in December as you do in May?
It all ends in tears anyway.
Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicket of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride.
Love is so short and forgetting is so long.
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!