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Mind sets limits, heart breaks them.
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Mind sets limits, heart breaks them.
Not loving for fear of suffering is like not living for fear of dying.
Then love-devouring death do what he dare;
It is enough I may but call her mine.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
If we begin to love a thing which we hated, or upon which we were in the habit of looking with sorrow, we shall rejoice for the very reason that we love , and to this joy which love involves a new joy is added, which springs from the fact that the effort to remove the sorrow which hatred involves, is so much assisted, there being also present before us as the cause of our joy the idea of the person whom we hated.
I went down, giving you my arm, at least one million of stairs and now that you are no more here it's the void on every step.
When I fell in love, I live in constant fear of being left. Whatever you love most, you fear you might lose, you know it can change. Why do you look from left to right when you cross the street? Because you don't want to get run over. But, you still cross the street!
She jumped into the boat and rowed out on the lake, to then take out a travel book, letting herself be lulled by the movement of the waves, she read, she dreamt herself far away, in foreign lands where she always found her friend, to whose heart she had always remained close, as he was to hers.
Perhaps we always fall in love the very first instant we see the man of our dreams, even though, at the time, reason may be telling us otherwise, and we may fight against that instinct, hoping against hope that we won't win, until there comes a point when we allow ourselves to be vanquished by our feelings.