Random quotes.

[Minara]

These are random quotes, good thread for posting things that might strike you in some way.

"Poetry should be simple, sensuous and passionate." - John Milton

"Poetry should surprise by a fine excess. Poetry should discover to our eyes what has always been there." - John Keats

"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. " Mary Ludwig-Hays-McCauley

"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility, the breath and finer spirit of knowledge." - William Wordsworth

"A truly wise man is one who realizes how little he knows."

"Pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth." - Deepak Chopra

"Does war bring out the worst in men or does the worst in men bring out war?"

"Hate is sometimes just misplaced fear."

"Change is the only constant."

"Faith makes things possible, love makes them easy."

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."

"Time is the fire in which we burn." - Soren, "Star Trek Generations"

[Louis]

"Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not."

"Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says, "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend."

"Moonlight and roses are bound to fade for every lover and every maid but the bond that holds in any weather is learning how to laugh together."

"Marriage is a commitment- a decision to do, all through life, that which will express your love for one's spouse."

" Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away."

"The fear about losing a loved one is the fear of change itself. Being used to one person, day after day, then to one day wake up all alone, a whole new day. Think of it as a chance to start over ... to learn from the past and make a brand new beginning."

"Change is not bad as long as both people are willing to change together to make things better; it's when one person demands all the changes and refuses to make any of the other person's requests that change is destructive."

"A change is good for me, for I must learn now how to live. With you I've spent many nights, and can no longer survive without your touch. I need to learn now how to live for myself each day, and when I learn the biggest task, I can finally call myself independent."

"You'll never leave where you are, until you decide were you would rather be."

"There is a fine line between love and hate, and with one simple mistake, that boundary could be crossed."

"Sometimes change is what's best, letting your heart break, and learning how to cope."

"Don't hold on to something that was never there."

"Change can be good or bad, it depends on how you accept it."