On the other hand...

God must have been a fucking genius...

Sometimes all it takes is one of these (insert personal preference type)

To go from this...to this..

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

• The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
  • eden ahbez, "Nature Boy" (1948).

• Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions.
  • Woody Allen, reported in James Robert Parish, The Hollywood Book of Love, (2003), p. 35.

• Who sings of all of Love's eternity
  Who shines so bright
  In all the songs of Love's unending spells?
  Holy lightning strikes all that's evil
  Teaching us to love for goodness sake.
  Hear the music of Love Eternal
  Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.
  • Jon Anderson, in "Loved by the Sun", from movie Legend (1985) - (YouTube Video).
• It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
  • Augustine of Hippo, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 392.
• I cannot love as I have loved,
  And yet I know not why;
  It is the one great woe of life
  To feel all feeling die.
  • Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene A Party and Entertainment.
• If thou must love me, let it be for nought
  Except for love's sake only. Do not say
  "I love her for her smile — her look — her way
  Of speaking gently, — for a trick of thought
  That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
  A sense of pleasant ease on such a day" —
  For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
  Be changed, or change for thee, — and love, so wrought,
  May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
  Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, —
  A creature might forget to weep, who fbore
  Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
  But love me for love's sake, that evermore
  Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in Sonnets from the Portugese, No. XIV.
• L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
  • The Love which moves the sun and the other stars.
  • Dante Alighieri, Paradiso XXXIII, 145.
• We are all born for love.
  It is the principle of existence and its only end.
  • Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil (1845), Book V, Chapter IV.
• Che mai
  Non v'avere ò provate, ò possedute.

  Far worse it is
  To lose than never to have tasted bliss.

  • Giovanni Battista Guarini, Il pastor fido (1590).
• The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.
  • Helen Keller, The Story of My Life (1905), p. 203.
• Give in to love, or live in fear.
  • Jonathan Larson, "Another Day", Rent (1996).
• So dear I love him, that with him all deaths
  I could endure, without him live no life.
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IX, line 832.
• In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
  • John Steinbeck in East of Eden.
• 'Tis better to have loved and lost,
  Than never to have loved at all.
  • Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), Part XXVII, Stanza 4.
• Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
  • Leo Tolstoy in War and Peace (1865-1869).
• • To see her is to love her,
    And love but her forever;
    For nature made her what she is,
    And never made anither!
    • Robert Burns, Bonny Lesley.
  • The wisest man the warl' e'er saw,
    He dearly loved the lasses, O.
    • Robert Burns, Green Grow the Rashes.
  • The golden hours on angel wings
    Flew o'er me and my dearie,
    For dear to me as light and life
    Was my sweet Highland Mary.
    • Robert Burns, Highland Mary.
  • Oh my luve's like a red, red rose,
    That's newly sprung in June;
    Oh my luve's like the melodie
    That's sweetly played in tune.
    • Robert Burns, Red, Red Rose.
  • What is life, when wanting love?
    Night without a morning;
    Love's the cloudless summer sun,
    Nature gay adorning.
    • Robert Burns, Thine am I, my Faithful Fair.
• Pains of love be sweeter far
  Than all other pleasures are.
  • John Dryden, Tyrannic Love, Act IV, scene 1.
• In einem Augenblick gewährt die Liebe
  Was Mühe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.

  Love grants in a moment
  What toil can hardly achieve in an age.

  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Torquato Tasso, II. 3. 76.
• Si sine amore, jocisque
  Nil est jucundum, vivas in amore jocisque.

  If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.

  • Horace, Epistles, I. 6. 65.
• Sing, for faith and hope are high—
  None so true as you and I—
  Sing the Lovers' Litany:
  "Love like ours can never die!"
  • Rudyard Kipling, Lovers Litany.
• • Odit verus amor nec patitur moras.

    True love hates and will not bear delay.

    • Seneca, Hercules Furens, 588.
  • Qui blandiendo dulce nutrivit malum,
    Sero recusat ferre, quod subiit, jugum.

    He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

    • Seneca, Hippolytus, CXXXIV.
• And my heart springs up anew,
  Bright and confident and true,
  And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning and the dew.
  • Robert Louis Stevenson, poem written 1876.

1670 ... Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of 
the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood 
pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown ...