There's no such thing as effortless beauty--you should know that.

There's no effort which is not beautiful--lifting a heavy stone or loving you.

Loving you is like lifting a heavy stone. It would be easier not to do it and I'm not quite sure why I am doing it. It takes all my strength and all my determination, and I said I wouldn't love someone again like this. Is there any sense in loving someone you can only wake up to by chance?

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I love you in order to begin loving you,
to start infinity again
and never to stop loving ...
PABLO NERUDA i am soft again.
there is water and it surrounds me.
there is feeling and i can feel it. AVA. i am soft again.
there is water and it surrounds me.
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Gestalt Prayer
I do my thing and you do yours.
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FREDERICK SALOMON PERLS

I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From wait...
PABLO NERUDA

Pretty Song"

From the complications of loving you
I think there is no end or return....
MARY OLIVER

I love you in my very own way.
Like a stone loves the mosses around it
Like a sea loves th...
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Though I always knew you’d be my demise.
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Something I have said before. I shall say it again.
Shall I say it...
T.S. ELIOT WORTHY

If you ever decide to feel— feel this:
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I send you...

The gift of a letter from your wise self. This is the p...
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O heavy li...
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And I'm not sure you know
That t...
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Why not?"

Sure."

H...
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When I am with you, your kind and loving presence strength...
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And feel it on my palate
I’d be more happy for...
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I learned that if there is on...
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the end! Where is she? Not there - ...
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PABLO NERUDA So you intend to go through life never loving anyone? Just … things?”
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that makes me see beauty,
and makes every beautiful thing
bring yo...
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DR. KARAN M PAI The ugly parts of love can’t lift you up.
They bring you
D
O
W
N.
Th...
COLLEEN HOOVER 6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,
and I still don’t know which month it was then
or what day it...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON So you think you know the real meaning of fear?
Yeah, you think you do know, but I doubt it.
ILYA SELVINSKIY I am no king, and I am no lord,
And I am no soldier at-arms," said he.
"I'm none but a har...
PETER S. BEAGLE Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...

...
VERA NAZARIAN I think of you often
and make no outward show,
But what it means to lose you,
no one will ...
ANON. I ask the impossible: love me forever.
Love me when all desire is gone.
Love me with the s...
ANA CASTILLO When I see you, the World stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at y...
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Loving
what you do is happiness.
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SHANNON L. ALDER That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying

I wen...
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'And very amu...
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DEREK LANDY A truth should exist,
it should not be used
like this. If I love you

is that a ...
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Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all ...
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RICHELLE MEAD TO what purpose, April, do you return again?
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You can no longer qui...
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AMANDA QUICK (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER When you wait all your life for something and then you find it, it's like a miracle. All the parts i...
NORA ROBERTS Why are you being so nice to me?' I asked her.
'You know,' she said, 'when you say stuff like t...
SARAH DESSEN I like pouring your tea, lifting
the heavy pot, and tipping it up,
so the fragrant liquid ...
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FREDERICK BUECHNER Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving,
seized me so strongly with his charm that,
DANTE ALIGHIERI Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little...
PABLE NERUDA I LOVE YOU SO MANY REASONS '

---
Before i met you
I spent a lot of time
...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by li...
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It doesn't need not to be proved.
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER How long were you standing there?"

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BY SYLVIA PLATH

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SYLVIA PLATH Wrong?
So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ...
DEYTH BANGER I... I don't, I don't think I can do this."
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It didn't answer.
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TERRY PRATCHETT This is beautiful," I said, ignoring the shop window to trace the gleaming stone walls fronting anot...
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when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held d...
ELLEN BASS No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you kno...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë This is your last chance to do the right thing.'
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TONI MORRISON Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw.
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RATISH EDWARDS Do you think it's possible to do something so bad, even if you didn't mean to do it, that you can ne...
CASSANDRA CLARE I know you not quite well
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Slowly and carefully ...
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Did you not remember us in a song?
A dance?
In th...
KAMAND KOJOURI Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped away into the next room,
I am I and you are you...
HENRY SCOTT HOLLAND I'm not sure I even believe in marriage," Hadley says and he looks surprised.

"Aren't you...
JENNIFER E. SMITH I am frightened of nothing."
"Nothing?"
"Nothing."
"Are you extremely frightened of n...
NEIL GAIMAN Only after loving you
I realised I had an empty space;
this little void, a tad bit of hol...
NEENA H BRAR i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and n...
E.E. CUMMINGS I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?"
"Like I said," he ...
SARAH DESSEN "All alone!
Whether you like it or not,
alone is something you'll
be quite a lot"
DR. SEUSS If You Forget Me

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
PABLO NERUDA You should read something else."
Why would he have done that to him?"
I don't know," she s...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You’re thinking, maybe it would be easier to let it slip
let it go
say ”I give up” o...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON "Conversation"

God and I in space alone . . .
and nobody else in view . . .
"And wh...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX May be, Churchill had pointed out, I should stop trying so hard not to love Hardy, and accept the so...
LISA KLEYPAS Eeyore", said Owl, "Christopher Robin is giving a party."
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JAMES DURBIN I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and si...
HARUKI MURAKAMI TODD: Well, listen, Neil. I-I appreciate this concern, but I-I'm not like you.All right? You, you, y...
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VIKRANT PARSAI But what would have been the good?"
Aslan said nothing.
"You mean," said Lucy rather fai...
C.S. LEWIS Dear Goat,

How does one fall in love? Do you trip? Do you stumble, lose your balance and ...
CATHLEEN SCHINE I always knew it would end like this. It always does. There’s no point in fighting it, Aladdin. It...
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JEANETTE WINTERSON The trouble with babies is that they are made like a safe- no way to see what's inside and no guaran...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. I...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Women always bring it back to the personal,' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.' JEANETTE WINTERSON Human beings often display emotions they do not feel. And they often feel emotions they do not displ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Love is an intervention.
Why do we not choose it?” (205)
JEANETTE WINTERSON Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
JEANETTE WINTERSON I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself.
I was up to my chin when the sho...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Loneliness isn’t about being by yourself. That’s fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. L...
JEANETTE WINTERSON …only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Much of what I have done is left unfinished- not because I left it too soon, not because I was lazy,...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The truth is that I’ve spent all my life with my binoculars trained on the Maybe Islands, a pristi...
JEANETTE WINTERSON For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate peopl...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Wallowing is sex for depressives.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Poor me. There's nothing so sweet as wallowing in it is there? Wallowing is sex for depressives.
JEANETTE WINTERSON I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death,...
JEANETTE WINTERSON She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted c...
JEANETTE WINTERSON To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligations but being able to l...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those thi...
JEANETTE WINTERSON My mother was in charge of language. My father had never really learned to read - he could manage sl...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that h...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the...
JEANETTE WINTERSON To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her,
or if not I, the i...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written som...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
JEANETTE WINTERSON But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
JEANETTE WINTERSON Often the greatest progress happen in the most difficult of times.
JEANETTE CORON A circle of women may just be the most powerful force known to humanity. If you have one, embrace it...
JEANETTE LEBLANC Be gentle. Pay attention. Offer purposeful healing. Seek Equilibrium. Unfreeze, slowly. Stretch your...
JEANETTE LEBLANC We are here to love hard and true. Here to give ourselves over to the rush and bliss of it all. Here...
JEANETTE LEBLANC To know the hope and the struggle and the stay still and the run away and the come here and the push...
JEANETTE LEBLANC I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeo...
JEANETTE MACDONALD Do not try quiet my voice.
Do not attempt to soften my edges or tame my prowl.
I am inhabi...
JEANETTE LEBLANC Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans ...
JEANETTE DESOR Butterflies are beautiful, but the process of emerging from the chrysalis and spreading your wings c...
JEANETTE LEBLANC Been painting ceramics for years, I love it. I am waiting until I finish this project so that I can ...
JEANETTE BROWN It's like raping Alice in Wonderland.
JEANETTE WILLIAMS If you stop being afraid of the word no and take more chances, you will get more yes.
JEANETTE CORON I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald...
JEANETTE MACDONALD You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution. There are no bystanders who get to clai...
JEANETTE LEBLANC The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.
JEANETTE MACDONALD I must have had rocks in my head.
JEANETTE MACDONALD I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going t...
JEANETTE MACDONALD I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deep...
JEANETTE MACDONALD I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love ...
JEANETTE MACDONALD You realize, monsieur, that I am not in love with you, that I have no intention of falling in love w...
JEANETTE MACDONALD & Whenn i Scratch my Nailss Down hisss baqqqq ; yourrr gonnahhh feel it.
JEANETTE R. Because like the depths of the ocean that calls you home, you will never be easy.

But dar...
JEANETTE LEBLANC It can be said that we are built by many things. Biology and lineage. Grit and moonlight and ocean s...
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