On this lovely LJ protest day ...

[apocalypsos]

Perfect love casts out prudery together with fear.
~Richard Garnett

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.
~Robert Browning

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
~Goethe

You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without.
~Unknown

When two people are under the influence of the most violent,
most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions,
they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously
until death do them part.
~George Bernard Shaw

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
~Lao Tzu

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

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love: The irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
~Mark Twain

To love for the sake of being loved is human,
but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
~Alphonse de Lamartine

All love is sweet,
Given or returned. Common as light is love,
And its familiar voice wearies not ever…
They who inspire it most are fortunate,
As I am now; but those who feel it most
Are happier still.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

We love the things we love for what they are.
~Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
~Robert Frost

What a grand thing, to be loved!
What a grander thing still, to love!
~Victor Hugo

We are all born for love.
It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
~Benjamin Disraeli

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.
I love you for the part of me you bring out.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There is no disguise which can hide love long where it exists,
or simulate it where it does not.
~Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for one another.
~George Eliot

Love is my religion. I could die for it.
~John Keats

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
~Vincent Van Gogh

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
~1 John 4:18

Accept the things
To which fate binds you and
Love the people with whom fate
Brings you together
But do so with all your heart
~Marcus Aurelius

Wait for the one you love. Not the one who found you first.
~Unknown

Time was away and somewhere else, there were two glasses
and two chairs, and two people with one pulse.
~Louis MacNeice

I found the one whom my soul loves.
I held him, and would not let him go…
~Song of Solomon 3:4

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories?
~George Eliot

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
~George Eliot

Love knows no reasons, love knows no lies.
Love defies all reasons, love has no eyes.
But love is not blind, love sees but doesn't mind.
~Unknown

For in my mind, of all mankind
I love but you alone.
~Unknown / folksong

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another!
~Matthew Arnold


Fuck you, President Bush. Fuck you very much.

Comments

[marag.livejournal.com]

Those are wonderful! Some of them I knew, but others were new to me. ::looks at icon and sniffles with sappy joy:: All true, so true.

Love is love, and we should cherish it wherever it occurs.

I see your "Fuck you, President Bush" and raise you a "Rot in the hell you believe in, sucker."

[herlifeisbroken.livejournal.com]

Fuck you, President Bush. Fuck you very much.

Ewww. Wouldn't that make you a lump in the bed?

[hemlock-martini.livejournal.com]

Love is careless in its choosing...Love descends on those defenseless.
--David Bowie

Life is short, and love is always over in the morning...
--Sisters Of Mercy (not ENTIRELY applicable, but I like the song it comes from)

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

Those are beautiful. I'm stealing one for my own LJ entry, thank you!

[dustbunnygirl.livejournal.com]

Old Will's take on the subject:

"Love looks not with eyes, but with the mind."
William Shakespeare

"So dear I love him that with him, all deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life."
William Shakespeare

"Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares."
William Shakespeare

And I third (or is it fourth by now?) and lend a hearty "here, here!" to the fuck Bush sentiment.

[leelee-cakes.livejournal.com]

I'll add my WORD to the Bush comments.

And I hope you don't mind my snagging a few of these quotes for my own LJ. Spread the love and all that. *g*

Leelee

[clarus.livejournal.com]

Hello there! I've read a few of your entries and think they're lovely. I was wondering if I could add you?

Meow.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Sure, go right on ahead. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Yea im sure Gidget would drop the fbomb, make fun of Bush, and be for gay marraiges. right. drop the title, your not worthy of it.

[(Anonymous)]

about the quotes:
how can you possibly call love between two humans perfect love???? Perfect, unconditional love will never exist between humans, maybe i've been reading too much kafka but its true. also half the people you quoted would be spinning in their graves. people don't like it when their words are used in other contexts than they origionally meant them, but way to try to spin them.

[overloved.livejournal.com]

Aren't you a hateful s.o.b.!! Methinks you should read the post again, but without that broom up your arse.

hi!

[divide-by-zero.livejournal.com]

i've been lurking for awhile now, but clause gave me courage; i hope you don't mind if i add you too? and provide my own heartfelt "rock on!".

Re: hi!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Not at all, friend away. :)

[professorbilly.livejournal.com]

i completely agree with you. especially about the "fuck you" part. thanks for the quotes. i enjoyed them and will tell others. :)