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“Who, being loved, is poor?”
― Oscar Wilde

“music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but
you are the music
While the music lasts.”
― T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems, 1909-1962

“The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Now that the lilacs are in bloom
She has a bowl of lilacs in her room”
― T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems, 1909-1962

“The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.”
― T.S. Eliot

“You’ll come back
To me . . .
It’s written in the stars, you see,
you’ll come back.
You’ll come back,
it’s a fact
that I am strong because I do
believe in you.”
― Umberto Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

“The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

“What better hiding place for the true Templar than in the crowd of his caricatures?”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

“The person who doesn’t read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000. Reading is immortality backwards.”
― Umberto Eco

“And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“But if there is no cosmic Plan? What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there. Exile from a place, moreover, that does not exist.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

“From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Light
Light
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Can we only love
Something created in our own imaginations?
Are we all in fact unloving and unlovable?
Then one is alone, and if one is alone
Then lover and beloved are equally unreal
And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.”
― T.S. Eliot

“I that was near your heart was removed therefrom”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems

“Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in the aspect of time Caught in the form of limitation Between un-being and being. Sudden in a shaft of sunlight Even while the dust moves There rises the hidden laughter Of children in the foliage”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“Those whom the gods love grow young.”
― Oscar Wilde

“here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)”
― e.e. cummings

“may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old

may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it's sunday may i be wrong
for whenever men are right they are not young

and may myself do nothing usefully
and love yourself so more than truly
there's never been quite such a fool who could fail
pulling all the sky over him with one smile”
― E.E. Cummings, E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
― John Lennon

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,

"You owe me."

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”
― Hafiz

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
― Mother Teresa

“The course of true love never did run smooth; But, either it was different in blood,
O cross! too high to be enthrall’d to low.
Or else misgraffed in respect of years,
O spite! too old to be engag’d to young.
Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,
O hell! to choose love by another’s eye.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Love is a better master than duty.”
― Albert Einstein