Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.
Oscar Hammerstein IiRead
A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
Interpretation
Love and creativity require action to manifest.
This quote emphasizes that true expressions of love and creativity come to life only through our active participation. Like a bell that requires ringing or a song that needs to be sung, love finds its significance when we choose to share it with others instead of keeping it to ourselves.
In practice
During a wedding ceremony to emphasize the importance of sharing love.
Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.
There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
I'm not going to run, I'm going to stand here and watch. Every blow will cut into my heart, and tell me who and what you are.
The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you.
When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.
Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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