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?
If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!
Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 'Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love.' ... Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul.
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