"Can we share my eyes so you can see what I see?Can we share my ears so you can hear what I hear?Can you perch on my shouldersso you can go where I go?Always in my heart, I don't experience anything separate from you.This shared wonderment becomes doubled.This shared love becomes infinite."

"Like a pair of old slippers,I feel comfort andwarmth as I slip into you.No, that is too crude.Like the match to the wick,I ignite when we touch.My counterpart andlife's purpose.Yes, as though I've known you my whole life.Every scar, every failurehas become an affirmationof what should be:You.Yes, as though I've loved you my whole life."

"Your omnipresence is marvellous!I breathe and you enter me.I exhale and enter into you."

"Enjoy this moment. The ultimate fulfilment of the dream will not come close to the dream. Enjoy it."

"I have drunk the night and swallowed the stars. I am dancing with abandon and singing with rapture. There is not a thing I do not love. There is not a person I have not forgiven. I feel a universe of love. I feel a universe of light. Tonight, I am with old friends and we are returning home. The moon is our witness."

"Why are we afraid of the silence that ensues after our death? Wasn't it the same silence we endured before birth? Isn't it the same silence we revel in when we are completely immersed in the present moment? Let us not be afraid."

"The more we surrender to what cannot be, the better we control what can be."

"Because you have been blessed with the gift of life, it is your duty to help others. We are all responsible for one another."

"You only feel powerless because your fear has given your power to the object of your fear. Once you realise this, you can claim it back."

"Two great things happened to me. One was that I survived. The other was that I met you, because I knew why."

"I write to understand what I know."

"I'll forget me.You forget you.We can be onetogether, happily."

"Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It's time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love."

"The best traveler is one without a camera."

"Love, the exotic bird, came and went.Heart forgot love.Joy, the majestic willow, wept and died.Mind forgot joy.Hope, the basement lamp, fell and broke.Soul forgot hope.Self, the anxious caterpillar, took flight and dropped.Self forgot self.You, my all, became all my reasons.Reasons left.You left.I never forgot."

"Your love opened up a whole world that no amount of books or wisdom could ever do."

"If today is not your day, then be happy for this day shall never return. And if today is your day, then be happy now for this day shall never return."

"I know you not quite wellYet I foolishly surrender my mind to you. Slowly and carefully you have cast a spellNow my virgin heart only longs for you. There is no need to push, I am already falling. Once proudly tall, I'm no longer standing. Knowing well that I am doomed to misery,I will roll the dice and take delight in my suffering."

"It is your ego that needs to explain itself. The self just is."

"Don't make the mistake of looking down on your partner. You're only on that pedestal because they put you up there."

"Remember to forget yourself."

"May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human."

"Think the tree that bears nutrition:though the fruits are picked, the plant maintains fruition.So give all the love you have.Do not hold any in reserve.What is given is not lost; it shall return."

"Like freshly cut roses, I place life in a vase... of love."

"Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return."

"Love is the only reason that is reason enough."

"Take me when I'm wild.Take me when I'm free.Take me for meand I will take you as you want to be."

"I love you.I love you a thousand times.I love you an irrational number. And I will continue to love youlong after all this has died and been rebornand we are nothing more than a pair of reincarnated eyes."

"Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bombs. Let the silence rise from empty bellies and surge from broken hearts. The silence of the hidden and forgotten. The silence of the abused and tortured. The silence of the persecuted and imprisoned. The silence of the hanged and massacred. Loud as all the sounds can be, let my silence be loud so the hungry may eat my words and the poor may wear my words. Loud as all the sounds can be, let my silence be loud so I may resurrect the dead and give voice to the oppressed. My silence speaks."

"O, weary angels, don't look at me with those eyes.If that is your state then what of our cries?What can I tell you of goodness that you don't already know?What can I tell you of faith,of hope and lovethat you yourselves bestow?O, angels, don't pluck another feather,this isn't the sky, it's just the weather.Please, angels, try.We are one all together.Look up and listen, I'll say it once and then put down my pen:We are sorry for our ignoranceand even though we are worldly,it might happen again.We are sorry for your wearinessand even though you aren't worldly,we are no more than human."

"We start a relationship with someone not only because of how great they are but how great they make us feel. And because they have granted us this extraordinary gift-a chance to experience love, joy, compassion, and security -it is our exclusive privilege to make them feel wonderful about themselves, especially during days when they, themselves, don't feel so wonderful."

"They tell us the only way to move on is to forget."Forgive, they say.Realise that you deserve better.That maybe they deserve better.You can't fight fire with fire.Extinguish it once and for all."Do not look back," they say.They don't tell you that only one thing is needed. Only one:love.When you are filled to the brim with love,you only emanate love.You become lover and love itself.Only then will you love even the very people you wish to hate."

"We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifest the very thing we love about ourselves so that they may see it and love us too."

"To love is to finally live."

"The first time I heard you laugh, I only wanted to say funny things so you would always be laughing. You know what happens to chocolate when you leave it out in the sun? I'm that unfortunate chocolate and you, you are the laughing sun. For this reason, I am offering myself to you not as a martyr or some selfless fool, but as a self-indulgent moth who actively pursues the light without much fear for the flame. The moth who revels in the heat and declares: Burn me."

"Usually, when I dream of flying I am simply flapping my arms and somehow I lift off and glide through the sky. Last night was different. I missed you so much and my yearning was so powerful that I sprouted wings like a phoenix and soared to reach you. And now I finally understand: if you see lovers on a roof, do not worry. Surely, love has metamorphosed them."

"I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art."

"She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it?" she asked.He smiled and said, 'By loving you."

"What is the point of a relationship if not to grant two people the very private privilege to uplift one another every day?"

"Your attention is so sacred that if you truly look for beauty and grace, you will find it in everything."

"Everywhere I go, your beauty spills into my day. The trees were never this verdant. The birdsong never this sweet."

"Wake up. If your eyes are sleeping then wipe them gently. You need to be awake for this. It is a matter of life and death. Wake up! If your mind is sleeping then shake it quickly. You need to be awake for this. It is a matter of life and death. Wake up, I said! If your heart is sleeping then beat your chest! You need to be awake for life! You need to be awake for love! It is a matter of living and being alive."

"The greatest thinkers have attempted to find who we are where we come from and why we are here but the greatest enigmas to me are how your hair is a lasso that captures the stars how your eyes are lakes that drown my doubts and how your skin is the sun bursting all at once. If I knew these answers I'd know everything for you alone contain the entire universe."

"Being deeply, passionately, and intensely in love is being deeply, passionately, and intensely in life."

"I fell in loveand then I became love."