love, I’ve come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

Forgiveness is a highly yielding tool for success. The ROI in it never drops.

I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter...

Long dormant feelings poured through my dried-up limbs and wound through me, slowly filling the emptiness. Like an irrigated field, I felt myself blossom and grow with new vigor. He was the sun, and the...

Love is as hard to hide as hate.

I felt a decidedly positive energy in the office with Rohan’s presence. I was not sure if it was real enough for others to experience it too, but I felt it keenly. Gawd, my stupid...

I shiver and Tom wakes. It’s light enough to see his eyes open.”Are you cold?” he says. “Baby, are you cold?”He turns so that his arms are around me again. Baby, are cold?-and the ball...

That’s what I believe. I believe that universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed....

The Amy of today was abrasive enough to want to hurt, sometimes. I speak specifically of the Amy of today, who was only remotely like the woman I fell in love with. It had been...

I’m too busy to chew. That’s why I blend all my meals into smoothies, and I make love as slowly as ice cream melts in the Sahara.

Meet everyone with utmost respect and heartfelt love. Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, POET 2013– Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

And so must learn to love with our mouths and voices, as well as with our eyes, flesh, heart, brains, and with everything we have, right down to our toenails. There is not anything about...

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we’ve opened their cage

Love is almost never simple.

Its true that love doesn’t come easily. Its equally hard to just let it go. Ironically, its just not in your hand.

Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the...

Me.” And she opened up her soul, laid herself bare.

The little comfort of love?-Is that comfort so little?-Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.

People could call them ‘Jacks’ for short.” Nicole added to the conversation.

It’s natural. Nature is dark and light, birth and death. Everything and its opposite. And in nature there are predators and prey. The hunters and the hunted. The heartbreakers and the heartbroken. The beautiful thing...

A large income will not give you happiness, but a blissful heart will.

When it comes to love, it’s always worth the sacrifice. Always.

Do you know, when I am with you I am not afraid at all. It is a magic altogether curious that happens inside the heart. I wish I could take it with me when I...

I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling,...

I wasn’t ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn’t that I wasn’t right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn’t right for me. There was a difference. Even for someone who things...

But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me....

Romance is the fragrance of pure love.

Daniel first kisses his brother in a town where no-one knows them, a no-account place that’s barely even a town, just some buildings clustered around the highway: a smoky bar, an empty motel, a convenience...

Truth is we are all tragedies waiting to happen; we just have to remember to have the rescue crew nearby when it strikes.

She was almost too beautiful. Maybe that sounded stupid, but there wasn’t another way to describe it.

Non-attachment grounded in faith allows good to return to you.

My brain is so busy with Nick thoughts, it’s a swarm inside my head: Nicknicknicknicknick! And when I picture his mind, I hear my name as a shy crystal ping that occurs once, maybe twice,...

The Hands create, what the Heart feels!

You’re my love, you’re my lighthouse; and the sea is rough and in the dark days.

The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that...

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she’s in sorrow.

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

He wanted to be loved and cherished, yes. But he also wanted to be fucked.

Only unconditional grace can transform a hardened heart into a grateful heart. Only a free gift can demolish any notion of quid pro quo. Only an utterly merciful act of love can fashion a new...

The darkness isn’t so frightening with Ryan. With him I can believe that I am a princess with a wreath of flowers and ribbons crowning my head and he is my prince sworn to protect...

Touch”You are alreadyasleep. I lowermyself in next toyou, my skin slightlynumb with the restraintof habits, the patina ofself, the black frostof outsideness, so that evenunclothed it isa resilient chillyhardness, a superficiallymalleable, deadrubbery texture.You are a...

I lived a life, a life of risks, risks I never took.

And when I looked outside the window, something inside of me churned, swallowing hard I looked up and saw blue. I squeezed my eyes shut, holding back the tears and emotions that were swelling inside...

If ever you have had a romantic, uncalculating friendship, – a boundless worship and belief in some hero of your soul, – if ever you have so loved, that all cold prudence, all selfish worldly...

Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you’ll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don’t display great talent and have...

What happens if a car comes? We die.

God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.

You are my reality, fantasy, daydream, fairytale, music, more than the princess in Cinderella; you are much more than a traditional myth.

History does seem to repeat itself hence it’s mindboggling to still hear the ‘avoid all negative people’ speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual teachers. Ironically, their congregations would probably be the ones hiding...

When we dedicate our talent to serving a neighbor, it is possibly one of the highest forms of worship; something sacred transpires when we sacrifice our time and dedicate our God-given loves and talents to...