"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) French Aviator, Writer
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable." - Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English Essayist, Poet, Statesman
"To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others." - Francois Mauriac (1885-1970) French Novelist, Essayist, Poet, Playwright
"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination." - Voltaire (1694-1778) [Francois-Marie Arouet] French Philosopher, Historian, Writer
"Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too." - William Blake (1757-1827) English Poet, Mystic, Painter
"He who love touches walks not in darkness." - Plato (427-347BC) Greek Philosopher
"You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) English Poet
"For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow." - Rosemonde Gerard
"We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are." - Anais Nin (1914-1977) French-born American Novelist, Dancer
"For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying." - Aeschylus (525-456BC) Greek Dramatist, Tragic Poet
"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species." - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English Novelist, Playwright
"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." - Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet
"Love is the only gold." - Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1883) English Poet Laureate
"Love comfortheth like sunshine after rain." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"You say that love is nonsense - I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength." - Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) American Historian
"Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry." - Anouk Aimee (1932~) French Actor
"For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress." - William Blake (1757-1827) English Poet, Mystic, Painter
"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." - Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Czechoslovakian-born German Lyric Poet
"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is." - Diane Ackerman (1948~) American Poet, Writer, Social Worker
"Love is a many splendid thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!" - Moulin Rouge (The Movie)
"Love asks me no questions, And gives me endless support." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) French Aviator, Writer
"You can give without loving, But you cannot love without giving." - Amy Carmichael (1867-1951) Irish Missionary
"Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person." - Nathaniel Branden (American Psychologist)
"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart." - Honore De Balzac (1799-1850) French Novelist
"To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. [Life and love]" - Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English Novelist, Satirist, Scholar
"We can only learn to love by loving." - Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) English Novelist, Philosopher
"And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course." - Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) Lebanese-born American Mystic Poet, Painter
"When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out." - Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) Irish Novelist
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Love Quote 04
"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!" - Oscar Hammerstein (1895-1960) American Song Writer
"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that." - Michael Leunig (1945~) Cartoonist
"I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever." - Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Bengali Poet, Novelist, Composer
"In all the world there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine." - Maya Angelou (1928~) American Actor, Author
"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love." - Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) American Actor, Singer
"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." - Francois Mauriac (1885-1970) French Novelist, Essayist, Poet, Playwright
"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain." - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator
"The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom." - Anais Nin (1914-1977) French-born American Novelist, Dancer
"The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed." - Suzanne Necker
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
"Love is a great beautifier." - Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) American Novelist, Children's Writer
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." - Josh Billings (1818-1885) [Henry Wheeler Shaw] American Humorist
"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person." - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English Novelist, Playwright
"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) English Poet
"Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other--it doesn't matter who it is-- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other." - Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary
"Think about it, there must be higher love Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above Without it, life is a wasted time Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine." - Stephen Laurence 'Steve' Winwood (1948~) British Musician, Singer
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return. [Moulin Rouge]" - Eden Ahbez (1909-1995) American Songwriter
"What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated." - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English Statesman, Author, Prime Minister (1868, 1874-80)
"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love." - Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American Politician
"I'd like to run away From you, But if you didn't come And find me - I would die." - Dame Shirley Bassey (1937~) Welsh Singer
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist
"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) English Poet
"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears." - Woodrow Wyatt (1918~) English Journalist
"Even though there may be times It seems I'm far away Never wonder where I am 'Cause I am always by your side. [The Power of Love]" - Celine Dion (1968~) Canadian Quebecois Singer
"Paradise is always where love dwells." - Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) German Novelist, Writer, Aesthetician
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." - Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) Swedish Actor
"The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done." - Francis William Bourdillon (1852-1921) English Poet
"The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return." - Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) English Children's Author
"The course of true love never did run smooth." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." - Jalal-Uddin Rumi (1207-1273) Turkish Sufi Mystic Poet
"She walks in beauty, Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes." - Lord Byron (1788-1824) [George Gordon] English Poet
"The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival. [Born For Love]" - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator
"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low." - Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American Preacher, Orator, Writer
"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration." - Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American Novelist
"The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love." - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English Novelist, Playwright
"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." - Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881) American Author
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - What (women) like is to be a man's last romance." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Author, Poet, Wit, Dramatist
"If music be the food of love; play on." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"Life is a flower of which love is the honey." - Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Author, Lyric Poet, Dramatist
"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that." - Michael Leunig (1945~) Cartoonist
"I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever." - Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Bengali Poet, Novelist, Composer
"In all the world there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine." - Maya Angelou (1928~) American Actor, Author
"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love." - Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) American Actor, Singer
"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." - Francois Mauriac (1885-1970) French Novelist, Essayist, Poet, Playwright
"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain." - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator
"The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom." - Anais Nin (1914-1977) French-born American Novelist, Dancer
"The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed." - Suzanne Necker
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
"Love is a great beautifier." - Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) American Novelist, Children's Writer
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." - Josh Billings (1818-1885) [Henry Wheeler Shaw] American Humorist
"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person." - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English Novelist, Playwright
"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) English Poet
"Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other--it doesn't matter who it is-- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other." - Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary
"Think about it, there must be higher love Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above Without it, life is a wasted time Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine." - Stephen Laurence 'Steve' Winwood (1948~) British Musician, Singer
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return. [Moulin Rouge]" - Eden Ahbez (1909-1995) American Songwriter
"What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated." - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English Statesman, Author, Prime Minister (1868, 1874-80)
"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love." - Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American Politician
"I'd like to run away From you, But if you didn't come And find me - I would die." - Dame Shirley Bassey (1937~) Welsh Singer
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist
"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) English Poet
"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears." - Woodrow Wyatt (1918~) English Journalist
"Even though there may be times It seems I'm far away Never wonder where I am 'Cause I am always by your side. [The Power of Love]" - Celine Dion (1968~) Canadian Quebecois Singer
"Paradise is always where love dwells." - Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) German Novelist, Writer, Aesthetician
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." - Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) Swedish Actor
"The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done." - Francis William Bourdillon (1852-1921) English Poet
"The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return." - Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) English Children's Author
"The course of true love never did run smooth." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." - Jalal-Uddin Rumi (1207-1273) Turkish Sufi Mystic Poet
"She walks in beauty, Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes." - Lord Byron (1788-1824) [George Gordon] English Poet
"The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival. [Born For Love]" - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator
"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low." - Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American Preacher, Orator, Writer
"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration." - Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American Novelist
"The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love." - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English Novelist, Playwright
"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." - Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881) American Author
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - What (women) like is to be a man's last romance." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Author, Poet, Wit, Dramatist
"If music be the food of love; play on." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"Life is a flower of which love is the honey." - Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Author, Lyric Poet, Dramatist
Love Quote 03
"To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others." - Francois Mauriac (1885-1970) French Novelist, Essayist, Poet, Playwright
"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination." - Voltaire (1694-1778) [Francois-Marie Arouet] French Philosopher, Historian, Writer
"Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too." - William Blake (1757-1827) English Poet, Mystic, Painter
"He who love touches walks not in darkness." - Plato (427-347BC) Greek Philosopher
"You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) English Poet
"For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow." - Rosemonde Gerard
"We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are." - Anais Nin (1914-1977) French-born American Novelist, Dancer
"For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying." - Aeschylus (525-456BC) Greek Dramatist, Tragic Poet
"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species." - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English Novelist, Playwright
"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." - Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet
"Love is the only gold." - Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1883) English Poet Laureate
"Love comfortheth like sunshine after rain." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"You say that love is nonsense - I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength." - Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) American Historian
"Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry." - Anouk Aimee (1932~) French Actor
"For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress." - William Blake (1757-1827) English Poet, Mystic, Painter
"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." - Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Czechoslovakian-born German Lyric Poet
"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is." - Diane Ackerman (1948~) American Poet, Writer, Social Worker
"Soul meets soul on lover's lips." - Percy Bysshe Shelly (1792-1822) English Romantic Poet
"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American Writer, Poet, Journalist
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love." - Sophocles (495-406BC) Greek Dramatist
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." - George Sand (1804-1876) [Madame Dudevant] French Novelist
"Hearts are not to be had as a gift - hearts are to be earned." - William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish Poet, Revivalist of Irish Literature
"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand." - Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary
"Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eye, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"The life and love we create is the life and love we live." - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator
"Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love." - Erich Fromm (1900-1980) German-American Psychoanalyst, Social Philosopher
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao-Tzu (604-531BC) Chinese Philosopher, Co-founder of Taoism
"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight, For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. [Romeo and Juliet]" - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive." - Orlando A. Battista (1917~) Canadian-American Chemist, Author
"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion - I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion Love is my religion And I could die for that. I could die for you." - John Keats (1795-1821) English Poet
"Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away." - Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915) American Writer, Printer, Businessman
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire: In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep- burning and unquenchable." - Bruce Lee (1940-1973) Chinese-American Actor, Director, Martial Artist
"I love you - those three words have my life in them." - Alexandrea to Nicholas III
"Love is that condition in which The happiness of another person Is essential to your own. [Stranger in a Strange Land]" - Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American Science Fiction Writer
"Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union." - Rollo May (1909-1994) American Psychotherapist
"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration." - D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) English Author
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." - Oprah Winfrey (1954~) American TV Personality, Actor
"There are three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love." - Bible, I Corinthians 13:13
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Author, Poet, Wit, Dramatist
"To live without loving is to not really live." - Moliere (1622-1673) [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] French Dramatist, Actor
"Love is the flower - you've got to let grow." - John Lennon (1940-1980) English Singer, Song Writer, Musician
"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." - Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English Novelist
"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination." - Voltaire (1694-1778) [Francois-Marie Arouet] French Philosopher, Historian, Writer
"Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too." - William Blake (1757-1827) English Poet, Mystic, Painter
"He who love touches walks not in darkness." - Plato (427-347BC) Greek Philosopher
"You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) English Poet
"For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow." - Rosemonde Gerard
"We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are." - Anais Nin (1914-1977) French-born American Novelist, Dancer
"For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying." - Aeschylus (525-456BC) Greek Dramatist, Tragic Poet
"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species." - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English Novelist, Playwright
"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." - Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet
"Love is the only gold." - Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1883) English Poet Laureate
"Love comfortheth like sunshine after rain." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"You say that love is nonsense - I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength." - Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) American Historian
"Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry." - Anouk Aimee (1932~) French Actor
"For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress." - William Blake (1757-1827) English Poet, Mystic, Painter
"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." - Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Czechoslovakian-born German Lyric Poet
"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is." - Diane Ackerman (1948~) American Poet, Writer, Social Worker
"Soul meets soul on lover's lips." - Percy Bysshe Shelly (1792-1822) English Romantic Poet
"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American Writer, Poet, Journalist
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love." - Sophocles (495-406BC) Greek Dramatist
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." - George Sand (1804-1876) [Madame Dudevant] French Novelist
"Hearts are not to be had as a gift - hearts are to be earned." - William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish Poet, Revivalist of Irish Literature
"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand." - Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary
"Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eye, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"The life and love we create is the life and love we live." - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator
"Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love." - Erich Fromm (1900-1980) German-American Psychoanalyst, Social Philosopher
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao-Tzu (604-531BC) Chinese Philosopher, Co-founder of Taoism
"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight, For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. [Romeo and Juliet]" - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive." - Orlando A. Battista (1917~) Canadian-American Chemist, Author
"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion - I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion Love is my religion And I could die for that. I could die for you." - John Keats (1795-1821) English Poet
"Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away." - Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915) American Writer, Printer, Businessman
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire: In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep- burning and unquenchable." - Bruce Lee (1940-1973) Chinese-American Actor, Director, Martial Artist
"I love you - those three words have my life in them." - Alexandrea to Nicholas III
"Love is that condition in which The happiness of another person Is essential to your own. [Stranger in a Strange Land]" - Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American Science Fiction Writer
"Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union." - Rollo May (1909-1994) American Psychotherapist
"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration." - D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) English Author
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." - Oprah Winfrey (1954~) American TV Personality, Actor
"There are three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love." - Bible, I Corinthians 13:13
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Author, Poet, Wit, Dramatist
"To live without loving is to not really live." - Moliere (1622-1673) [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] French Dramatist, Actor
"Love is the flower - you've got to let grow." - John Lennon (1940-1980) English Singer, Song Writer, Musician
"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." - Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English Novelist
Love Quote 02
"Life without love is like a tree Without blossom and fruit." - Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) Lebanese-born American Mystic Poet, Painter
"A heart that loves is always young." - Greek Proverb
"A simple I love you means more than money." - Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) American Singer, Actor
"Let the world stop turning, Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love's not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true ...In this life I was loved by you." - Bette Midler (1945~) American Singer. Entertainer, Actor
"Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope." - Josh Billings (1818-1885) [Henry Wheeler Shaw] American Humorist
"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American Poet, Wit, Essayist, Scholar
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet, Essayist
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180AD) Roman Emperor, Philosopher
"This story is about truth, beauty, freedom; but above all things, this story is about love." - Moulin Rouge (The Movie)
"Love: A temporary insanity, curable by marriage. [The Devil's Dictionary]" - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913) American Author, Editor, Journalist
"To be in love is merely to be In a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god Or an ordinary young woman for a goddess." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen." - Samuel Adams (1722-1803) American Revolutionary, Statesman
"LOVE: The irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) [Samuel Clemens] American Author, Humorist
"Faults are thick where love is thin." - English Proverb
"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." - Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) American Novelist, Playwright, Anthropologist
"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them." - Stephen Edwin King (1947~) American Writer
"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." - Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) Argentinean Author
"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be." - Robert Browning (1812-1889) English Poet
"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (1940~) American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
"Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?" - Cinderella (The Fairytale)
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." - Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1883) English Poet Laureate
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." - Annie (The Movie)
"If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have." - Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish Journalist, Writer, Dramatist
"When love speaks, the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. [Love's Labor's Lost]" - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." - Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) American Clergyman, Writer
"Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely." - Hawkeye, MASH (Television Show)
"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise." - Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Author, Lyric Poet, Dramatist
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English Essayist, Poet, Statesman
"We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen
"Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it." - Josh Billings (1818-1885) [Henry Wheeler Shaw] American Humorist
"The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love." - Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Author, Lyric Poet, Dramatist
"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." - Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Czechoslovakian-born German Lyric Poet
"How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?" - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born American Physicist
"I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them." - Mae West (1893-1980) American Actor, Writer
"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself." - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return. [Unforgettable]" - Nat King Cole (1919-1965) American Singer, Pianist
"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." - Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881) American Author
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - What (women) like is to be a man's last romance." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Author, Poet, Wit, Dramatist
"If music be the food of love; play on." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"Life is a flower of which love is the honey." - Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Author, Lyric Poet, Dramatist
"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) French Aviator, Writer
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable." - Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English Essayist, Poet, Statesman
"A heart that loves is always young." - Greek Proverb
"A simple I love you means more than money." - Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) American Singer, Actor
"Let the world stop turning, Let the sun stop burning, Let them tell me love's not worth going through. If it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, The only dream that mattered had come true ...In this life I was loved by you." - Bette Midler (1945~) American Singer. Entertainer, Actor
"Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope." - Josh Billings (1818-1885) [Henry Wheeler Shaw] American Humorist
"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American Poet, Wit, Essayist, Scholar
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet, Essayist
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180AD) Roman Emperor, Philosopher
"This story is about truth, beauty, freedom; but above all things, this story is about love." - Moulin Rouge (The Movie)
"Love: A temporary insanity, curable by marriage. [The Devil's Dictionary]" - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913) American Author, Editor, Journalist
"To be in love is merely to be In a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god Or an ordinary young woman for a goddess." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen." - Samuel Adams (1722-1803) American Revolutionary, Statesman
"LOVE: The irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) [Samuel Clemens] American Author, Humorist
"Faults are thick where love is thin." - English Proverb
"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." - Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) American Novelist, Playwright, Anthropologist
"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them." - Stephen Edwin King (1947~) American Writer
"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." - Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) Argentinean Author
"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be." - Robert Browning (1812-1889) English Poet
"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (1940~) American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
"Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?" - Cinderella (The Fairytale)
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." - Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1883) English Poet Laureate
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." - Annie (The Movie)
"If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have." - Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish Journalist, Writer, Dramatist
"When love speaks, the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. [Love's Labor's Lost]" - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." - Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) American Clergyman, Writer
"Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely." - Hawkeye, MASH (Television Show)
"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise." - Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Author, Lyric Poet, Dramatist
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English Essayist, Poet, Statesman
"We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen
"Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it." - Josh Billings (1818-1885) [Henry Wheeler Shaw] American Humorist
"The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love." - Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Author, Lyric Poet, Dramatist
"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." - Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Czechoslovakian-born German Lyric Poet
"How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?" - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born American Physicist
"I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them." - Mae West (1893-1980) American Actor, Writer
"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself." - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return. [Unforgettable]" - Nat King Cole (1919-1965) American Singer, Pianist
"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." - Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881) American Author
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - What (women) like is to be a man's last romance." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Author, Poet, Wit, Dramatist
"If music be the food of love; play on." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"Life is a flower of which love is the honey." - Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Author, Lyric Poet, Dramatist
"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) French Aviator, Writer
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable." - Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English Essayist, Poet, Statesman
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Love Quote 01
"If I know what love is, it is because of you." - Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet
"Listen to my heart, can you hear it sing: Come back to me and forgive everything." - Moulin Rouge (The Movie)
"I have learned not to worry about love; But to honor its coming with all my heart." - Alice Walker (1944~) American Author, Critic
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) English Actor, Author, Director
"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly, and without expectation - We don't love to be loved; we love to love." - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator
"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German Philosopher, Poet
"But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning." - Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) English Officer, Navigator, Colonizer, Historian, Poet, Courtier
"Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end." - Madame De Stael (1766-1817) French-Swiss Novelist
"I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love." - Françoise Sagan (1935-2004) French Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter
"To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) [Samuel Clemens] American Author, Humorist
"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) French Aviator, Writer
"I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul." - Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430AD) Numidian-born Philosopher, Theologian
"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it." - Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) English Clergyman, Author
"The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident." - Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) English Novelist, Critic, Dramatist
"Love conquers all things; let us surrender to Love." - Virgil (70-19BC) [Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil] Roman Epic Poet
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." - Joan Crawford (1908-1977) American Actor
"Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve." - Joan Borysenko (American Clinical Psychologist, Author)
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear." - Bible, 1 John 4:18
"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing to it - you and you alone make me feel that I am alive - Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough." - George Moore (1852-1933) Irish Writer
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for." - Thomas Edward Bodett (1955~) American Author, TV Host, Radio Commentator
"Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time." - Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) English Poet
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." - Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948) American Writer
"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork." - Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) American Actor, Singer
"Who, being loved, is poor?" - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Author, Poet, Wit, Dramatist
"A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy." - George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) American Editor, Critic
"Love in its essence is spiritual fire." - Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) Swedish Naturalist, Mathematician, Scientist, Theologian
"It is not night when I do see your face." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"The first duty of love - is to listen." - Paul Johannes Tillich (1886-1965) American Theologian, Philosopher
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." - Albert Einstein
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope." - Maya Angelou (1928~) American Actor, Author
"Nothing in this world is single, all things by laws divine in one spirit mix and mingle; why not I with thine?" - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English Poet
"For it was not into my ear you whispered But into my heart Twas not my lips you kissed But my soul." - Judy Garland (1922-1969) American Actor, Singer
"Love is the greatest refreshment in life." - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish Painter, Sculptor
"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [Count Lev Tolstoi] Russian Novelist, Moral Philosopher, Mystic
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born American Physicist
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." - Plato (427-347BC) Greek Philosopher
"Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always." - Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Italian Epic Poet, Philosopher
"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable." - Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Author, Lyric Poet, Dramatist
"A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life. [The Spectator Magazine]" - Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English Essayist, Poet, Statesman
"Love is a haunting melody That I have never mastered And I fear I never will." - William Seward Burroughs (1914-1997) American Writer
"Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever." - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator
"So dear I love him that with him, All deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life. [Romeo & Juliet]" - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"Listen to my heart, can you hear it sing: Come back to me and forgive everything." - Moulin Rouge (The Movie)
"I have learned not to worry about love; But to honor its coming with all my heart." - Alice Walker (1944~) American Author, Critic
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) English Actor, Author, Director
"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly, and without expectation - We don't love to be loved; we love to love." - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator
"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German Philosopher, Poet
"But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning." - Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) English Officer, Navigator, Colonizer, Historian, Poet, Courtier
"Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end." - Madame De Stael (1766-1817) French-Swiss Novelist
"I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love." - Françoise Sagan (1935-2004) French Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter
"To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) [Samuel Clemens] American Author, Humorist
"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) French Aviator, Writer
"I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul." - Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430AD) Numidian-born Philosopher, Theologian
"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it." - Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) English Clergyman, Author
"The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident." - Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) English Novelist, Critic, Dramatist
"Love conquers all things; let us surrender to Love." - Virgil (70-19BC) [Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil] Roman Epic Poet
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." - Joan Crawford (1908-1977) American Actor
"Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve." - Joan Borysenko (American Clinical Psychologist, Author)
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear." - Bible, 1 John 4:18
"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing to it - you and you alone make me feel that I am alive - Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough." - George Moore (1852-1933) Irish Writer
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for." - Thomas Edward Bodett (1955~) American Author, TV Host, Radio Commentator
"Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time." - Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) English Poet
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." - Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948) American Writer
"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork." - Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) American Actor, Singer
"Who, being loved, is poor?" - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Author, Poet, Wit, Dramatist
"A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy." - George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) American Editor, Critic
"Love in its essence is spiritual fire." - Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) Swedish Naturalist, Mathematician, Scientist, Theologian
"It is not night when I do see your face." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
"The first duty of love - is to listen." - Paul Johannes Tillich (1886-1965) American Theologian, Philosopher
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." - Albert Einstein
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope." - Maya Angelou (1928~) American Actor, Author
"Nothing in this world is single, all things by laws divine in one spirit mix and mingle; why not I with thine?" - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English Poet
"For it was not into my ear you whispered But into my heart Twas not my lips you kissed But my soul." - Judy Garland (1922-1969) American Actor, Singer
"Love is the greatest refreshment in life." - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish Painter, Sculptor
"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [Count Lev Tolstoi] Russian Novelist, Moral Philosopher, Mystic
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born American Physicist
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." - Plato (427-347BC) Greek Philosopher
"Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always." - Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Italian Epic Poet, Philosopher
"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable." - Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Author, Lyric Poet, Dramatist
"A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life. [The Spectator Magazine]" - Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English Essayist, Poet, Statesman
"Love is a haunting melody That I have never mastered And I fear I never will." - William Seward Burroughs (1914-1997) American Writer
"Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever." - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator
"So dear I love him that with him, All deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life. [Romeo & Juliet]" - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor
Monday, May 5, 2008
2 Weeks with Posko Jenggala (part 01)
Bulan ini agustus 2007. Musim liburannya para Mahasiswa. Sebagian besar teman" memilih untuk pulang ke kampung masing" guna menjalankan program penggemukan badan setelah berbulan" melakukan program diet terpaksa secara ekstrem, atau menjalankan misi tebar" pesona di kampung masing". Sebentar lg kan 17 agustusan, kalo dikampungku pasti lg diramaikan dgn berbagai acara 17an. Moment yg sangat tepat buat menebar pesona sm anak" SMU. Tapi, sy sendiri lg malas pulang kekampung. Bukannya tdk rindu sm keluarga, tp September nanti kan sdh msk bulan puasa, kalo pulang sekarang kayaknya buang" ongkos sj. Lagipula ada tawaran kerja yg menarik dgn bayaran yg lumayan dari temanku Adam. Pekerjaan yg ditawarkan sm sy itu adalah menjadi relawan bencana banjir di Kab. Morowali Sulteng bersama rombongan dari Jakarta yg namanya Posko Jenggala. Sayang kalo dilewatkan. Lagipula bisa nambah" pengalaman yg siapa tahu bisa buat nambah panjang daftar pengalaman kerja di CVku nanti, hehe... Rombongan itu rencananya baru akan menghubungi sy setelah tiba di Makassar. Rombongan kemudian akan di bagi menjadi 2 yg melalui jalur darat dan udara. Kami akan bertemu di Sorowako. Baru setelah itu perjalanan akan dilanjutkan melalui jalur darat menuju ke lokasi. Setelah mereka tiba sy lalu dihubungi oleh Aan. Dialah yg memberitahukan Adam tentang pekerjaan ini. Aan dulu sekampus dengan Adam dan sy cukup mengenalnya karena kami sering ketemu di pondokan kalo sedang bersama Adam.
Pagi itu Aan menghubungi sy (Sy lupa tanggal berapa tepatnya). Dan kami janjian akan bertemu di Hotel Santika karena akan berangkat menuju ke lokasi malam ini jg. Maka pagi itu jg dgn persiapan seadanya sy pun berangkat ke Hotel Santika. Begitu tiba di Hotel sy segera menghubungi Aan, dan ternyata dia sedang ada keperluan diluar. Sy diminta untuk menunggunya dan sekalian berkenalan dgn rombongan yg ada disitu. Sy pun lalu berkenalan dgn mereka. Rombongan ini ada 9 orang termasuk Aan. Mereka adalah Dr. Gitawan, Dr. Rizal, Bang Irvan, Bang Adi, Bang Zein, Mas Munir, Bang Upan, dan Ika. Mereka ini rombongan yg akan melalui jalur darat menuju ke Sorowako. Sedangkan yg Melalui jalur udara rupanya sudah berangkat sejak malam td. Aan datang tdk lama kemudian. Karena kami baru akan berangkat pada malam nanti, maka siang itu kami lebih banyak duduk" ngobrol dan mempersiapkan segala sesuatunya untuk keperluan selama di Morowali nanti. Bahkan, sy berempat dgn Aan, Bang Adi, dan Dr.Rizal masih menyempatkan jalan" menikmati sop saudara.
Malamnya kami mulai mempersiapkan diri. Barang" dan obat"an yg akan dibawa ke Morowali akan diangkut dgn 2 mobil Box ukuran sedang. Pada saat pukul 12 malam, kami pun berangkat dgn 2 mobil kijang baru dan 2 mobil Box. Meninggalkan Makassar kami singgah di Pangkep untuk makan malam. Berhubung selepas maghrib td kami sangat sibuk melakukan persiapan jd kami baru bs makan malam jam 1 mlm. Luar Biasa, jam 1 malam br makan malam. Setelah makan malam yg sangat terlambat itu, kami pun kembali melanjutkan perjalanan. Sy yg tdnya berada di salah satu mobil Kijang kemudian memisahkan diri ke salah satu mobil box agar komunikasi antar mobil bisa lancar. Berhubung cukup lelah maka sy pun tertidur di mobil ini, sambil sesekali terbangun ketika dikejutkan oleh panggilan melalui Walkie Talkie yg kami gunakan untuk komunikasi antar mobil. Sekitar jam 4 subuh, sy tiba" dikejutkan oleh mobil yg berjalan oleng. Karena khawatir (Takut jg cing..) sy pun terbangun. Tampak oleh sy sang sopir mulai menunjukkan tanda" mengantuk. Gawat nih. "Nda apa" pak??" tanya sy pada sang sopir. "Maaf mas, sy agak mengantuk" jawab si sopir itu. Memang tampak sekali olehku kalo si sopir ini sdh sangat mengantuk. "Tp nda apa"kan??" Tanyaku lg khawatir, sambil berusaha menyembunyikan rasa takutku. "Iya nda apa-apa" jawabnya lg. Tdk lama kemudian, setelah berulang kali membuat mobil itu oleng kekiri dan kekanan, bersama dgn mobil box yg satunya lg, kami memutuskan untuk singgah ke sebuah warung untuk mengistirahatkan diri. Baru pada pagi harinya kami melanjutkan perjalanan. Otomatis kami tertinggal jauh dari kedua mobil kijang yg berjalan di depan kami. Di warung itu sy tdk bisa tidur. Terpaksa deh sy nongrkong sendirian ditemani teh panas dan Mbak penjaga warung sambil menunggui kedua sopir itu bangun dr tidurnya. So sad..
Paginya kami pun melanjutkan perjalanan. Berhubung kami sdh sangat jauh tertinggal, maka kedua mobil box itupun melaju gila"an. Kedua sopir itu keadaannya seperti baru sj dicharger melampaui batas normal. Maka beberapa jam kemudian kamipun bertemu dgn kedua mobil kijang tersebut, yg sedang beristirahat makan siang sambil menunggu kami di sebuah warung di daerah Palopo. Setelah makan siang dan beristirahat sebentar, rombongan kembali melanjutkan perjalanan. Keempat mobil ini melaju seperti dikejar setan. Dan mobil yg sy tumpangi berada paling belakang. Karena mobil kami paling belakang dan ketiga sopir mobil di depan berlaku seperti pembalap yg apabila tdk memenangkan kejuaraan akan ditembak mati, maka tertingallah kami, Payah... Perjalanan ini sebenarnya berlangsung cukup mengasyikkan karena pemandangan sepanjang jalan cukup memanjakan mata sehingga rasa ngantukku hilang. Tapi belum satu jam meninggalkan Palopo. Tiba" sy dikejutkan oleh olengnya mobil kesebelah kiri yg disertai teriakan kaget sang sopir. Sypun terkejut tp msh bisa bertahan untuk tdk berteriak. Walaupun sy jg sebenarnya ngeri setengah mati. Mobil ini terus melaju dan turun dr aspal di jalan yg berpasir dalam keadaan miring menuju parit dipinggir jalan. Sampai kemudian, GUBRAAAAKKK.... Mobil itu dgn suksesnya terbalik diparit dgn ban diatas.
(To be Continued)
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Forbidden Kingdom vs Three Kingdoms:Ressurection of the Dragon
Beberapa hari yg lalu sy nonton film barunya Jackie chan sm Jet Li yg judulnya Forbidden Kingdom. Melihat kedua nama besar aktor asia itu bermain dalam satu film, sudah cukup menjadi daya tarik buat sy buat untuk ikut di deretan antrian penonton malam itu. Sy sih sebenarnya berharap banyak waktu memilih nonton film ini. siapa sih yg tidak mengenal kedua nama tersebut?? Khususnya buat mereka yg ngaku maniak film-film mandarin. Tapi setelah selesai nonton film ini, sy kecewa. Jalan ceritanya ternyata biasa-biasa sj dan mudah ketebak. Sangat tipikal film-film hollywood.
Filmnya bercerita tentang seorang remaja amerika (diperankan Michael Angarano) yg maniak nonton film-film aksi mandarin yg tiba-tiba terjebak ke masa lampau. Untuk dapat kembali ke masa depan ia hrs menyelamatkan Monkey King (Jet Li) yg terkena kutukan menjadi batu akibat diperdayai oleh seorang Jenderal jahat (Collin Chou) yg iri kepadanya. Dengan dibantu oleh Drunken Master (Jackie Chan) dan Silent Monk (Jet Li jg) serta seorang pendekar wanita (Liu Yi Fei), mereka harus mengembalikan tongkat sakti Monkey King agar ia dapat terbebas dr kutukannya. Positifnya nih film menurut sy adalah adegan actionnya yg tergarap cukup baik dan sinematografinya. Sdh lama jg kan fans film-film action mandarin menantikan pertemuan antara kedua bintang besar ini dalam satu film. Dan hebatnya lg nih film sempat jd pemuncak Box Office pada minggu pertama pemutarannya di Amrik. Saya sih sebenarnya nggak kecewa-kecewa amat sm nih film. Coz, filmnya lumayan menghiburlah dan lagipula malam itu sy nonton gratis alias ditraktir sm sepupu, hehehe...
Kalo mau dibandingkan dgn filmnya Andy Lau Three Kingdoms:Ressurection of the Dragon yg sy nonton beberapa hari sebelumnya, sy lebih puas nonton Three Kingdoms. Filmnya sendiri bersettingkan masa saat China masih terbagi menjadi 3 kerajaan besar yg saling bermusuhan. Dari salah satu kerajaan itu ada seorang pahlawan (diperankan oleh Andy lau) yg sangat disegani oleh kerajaan lainnya. Dan secara garis besarnya film ini bercerita tentang awal mula dia menjadi tentara biasa sampai dia menjadi panglima besar. Nggak tahu jg dgn karakter yg diperankan sm Andy Lau apa real character or just fiction. Tapi dari segi cerita menurut sy Three Kingdom:Ressurection of the Dragon msh lebih baik dr Forbidden Kingdom.
But, itu tetap soal selera kan...?? Mau suka yg mana, kembali kepada masing-masing penonton.
Filmnya bercerita tentang seorang remaja amerika (diperankan Michael Angarano) yg maniak nonton film-film aksi mandarin yg tiba-tiba terjebak ke masa lampau. Untuk dapat kembali ke masa depan ia hrs menyelamatkan Monkey King (Jet Li) yg terkena kutukan menjadi batu akibat diperdayai oleh seorang Jenderal jahat (Collin Chou) yg iri kepadanya. Dengan dibantu oleh Drunken Master (Jackie Chan) dan Silent Monk (Jet Li jg) serta seorang pendekar wanita (Liu Yi Fei), mereka harus mengembalikan tongkat sakti Monkey King agar ia dapat terbebas dr kutukannya. Positifnya nih film menurut sy adalah adegan actionnya yg tergarap cukup baik dan sinematografinya. Sdh lama jg kan fans film-film action mandarin menantikan pertemuan antara kedua bintang besar ini dalam satu film. Dan hebatnya lg nih film sempat jd pemuncak Box Office pada minggu pertama pemutarannya di Amrik. Saya sih sebenarnya nggak kecewa-kecewa amat sm nih film. Coz, filmnya lumayan menghiburlah dan lagipula malam itu sy nonton gratis alias ditraktir sm sepupu, hehehe... 
Kalo mau dibandingkan dgn filmnya Andy Lau Three Kingdoms:Ressurection of the Dragon yg sy nonton beberapa hari sebelumnya, sy lebih puas nonton Three Kingdoms. Filmnya sendiri bersettingkan masa saat China masih terbagi menjadi 3 kerajaan besar yg saling bermusuhan. Dari salah satu kerajaan itu ada seorang pahlawan (diperankan oleh Andy lau) yg sangat disegani oleh kerajaan lainnya. Dan secara garis besarnya film ini bercerita tentang awal mula dia menjadi tentara biasa sampai dia menjadi panglima besar. Nggak tahu jg dgn karakter yg diperankan sm Andy Lau apa real character or just fiction. Tapi dari segi cerita menurut sy Three Kingdom:Ressurection of the Dragon msh lebih baik dr Forbidden Kingdom. But, itu tetap soal selera kan...?? Mau suka yg mana, kembali kepada masing-masing penonton.
Tips menulis cerpen
Menulis cerpen (cerita pendek) dapat menjadi permulaan karir yang baik sebagai penulis fiksi. Menulis cerita yang sangat panjang, seperti novel pastilah lebih membutuhkan waktu dan tenaga yang cukup banyak. Belum lagi mencari penerbit yang mau menerbitkannya. Cerita pendek dapat menjadi terobosan dalam karir menulis. Lebih banyak alternatif bagi penulis cerita pendek untuk dikenal, daripada novel. Majalah dan koran banyak yang menerima cerita pendek. Blog bisa juga menjadi alternatif dimuatnya cerita pendek di internet. Seringnya nama penulis muncul dalam cerita pendek yang dimuat di berbagai majalah dan koran, bisa menjadi pertimbangan positif bagi penerbit, bila penulis tersebut menyodorkan naskah cerita yang lebih panjang seperti novel ke penerbit.
Tulisan ini ditujukan pada penulis pemula yang ingin menulis cerita pendek dengan baik. Sesuai namanya, menulis cerita pendek memiliki keunikan tersendiri.
Tema
Sebaiknya Anda memiliki tema yang jelas saat menulis cerpen, tentang cerita seperti apa yang ingin Anda tulis. Pesan apa yang ingin Anda sampaikan kepada pembaca. Dengan adanya tema, yang menjadi tulang punggung cerita, maka cerpen Anda akan meninggalkan kesan tersendiri pada pembaca. Penetapan tema dari awal juga berguna agar saat menulis, Anda tidak terlalu jauh melenceng dari cerita sudah ditetapkan.
Alur cerita
Fokuslah pada satu alur cerita sesuai dengan tema yang sudah ditetapkan sebelumnya. Karakter tambahan, sejarah, latar belakang, dan detail lainnya sebaiknya memperkuat alur cerita ini. Percabangan alur cerita mutlak harus dihindari.
Karakter
Jangan menggunakan jumlah karakter yang terlalu banyak. Semakin banyak karakter bisa membuat cerita Anda menjadi terlalu panjang dan tidak fokus pada tema. Gunakan karakter secukupnya yang sesuai dengan alur cerita.
Sepenggal kisah hidup
Namanya saja cerita pendek, sehingga cerpen hanya menceritakan tentang sekelumit kisah dalam hidup karakter yang Anda buat. Jika karakter Anda memiliki kisah hidup yang sangat panjang, tulis hanya sebagai background yang menjadi penguat tema cerita tersebut. Tekankan hanya pada satu bagian dari hidupnya untuk ditulis.
Penggunaan kata
Bagaimanapun cerpen memiliki keterbatasan dalam jumlah kata yang bisa dipakai, apalagi cerita super pendek seperti flash fiction. Seringkali majalah atau koran tertentu benar-benar membatasi jumlah kata yang bisa dipakai. Jadi, Anda sebaiknya menggunakan pilihan kata yang efisien dan menghindari menggunakan kalimat deskriptif yang berpanjang-panjang.
Impresi
Secara tradisional, cerpen dimulai dengan pengenalan karakter, konflik, dan resolusi. Alternatif lain, adalah Anda dapat membuat impresi pada pembaca justru pada awal cerita, dengan langsung menghadirkan konflik. Karakter Anda sudah berada di dalam kekacauan besar. Hal ini akan membuat pembaca semakin penasaran, ada apa yang terjadi sebenarnya, bagaimana karakter tersebut akan mengatasi persoalannya. Pengenalan karakter, setting, dll dapat dilakukan secara perlahan-lahan di bagian cerita berikutnya.
Kejutan
Beri kejutan pada pembaca di akhir cerita. Hindari membuat akhir cerita yang mudah ditebak.
Konklusi
Jangan biarkan pembaca meraba-raba dalam gelap pada akhir cerita Anda. Pastikan konklusi di akhir cerita Anda memuaskan, tetapi juga tidak mudah ditebak. Pembaca perlu dibuat berkesan pada akhir cerita, tentang apa yang terjadi pada karakter tersebut. Akhir cerita yang mengesankan akan selalu diingat oleh pembaca, bahkan setelah lama mereka selesai membaca cerita tersebut.
Ditulis oleh Didik Wijaya
Find Idea
Kemampuan otak dalam menelorkan ide-ide bisa diibaratkan seperti rasa gatal. Apabila digaruk maka akan menyebabkan rasa gatal pada bagian yang lain. Ketika rasa gatal digaruk bukannya kesembuhan yang didapat tetapi gatal yang semakin menjadi-jadi. Namun kalau gatal tersebut didiamkan saja maka akan hilang dengan sendirinya. Begitu juga dalam menulis. Ketika pikiran sudah terasa gatal untuk menulis maka jangan membiarkan rasa ”gatal” itu mati. Namun segeralah untuk menggaruknya agar muncul rasa gatal yang lain.
Begitulah sebaiknya yang dilakukan para penulis maupun calon penulis. Seorang penulis harus segera tanggap terhadap sinyal yang selalu dikirmkan oleh inderanya masing-masing. Sekecil apapun sinyal yang dikirimkan harus segera ditangkap agar sinyal tersebut tidak lenyap. Sayangnya, kita sering meremehkan sinyal-sinyal yang datang karena menganggap bahwa itu bukanlah sesuatu yang penting. Dan ada kesukaan dari kita untuk melewatkan begitu saja ide-ide ”biasa” tersebut, dengan alasan menunggu yang brilian. Bahkan banyak yang berusaha membunuhnya.
Padahal, untuk mendapatkan ide yang brilian tidak semudah mengedipkan mata (meskipun juga tidak sesulit menyeterika pakaian). Untuk mendapatkan ide brilian harus melalui sebuah proses berpikir. Untuk itu ketika anda sedang berusaha untuk menemukan ide yang brilian maka harus menyingkap dahulu ide-ide ”biasa” yang berserakan di dalam pikiran kita.
Pengalaman yang saya alami selama ini ide-ide yang saya anggap brilian baru muncul ketika ide-ide biasa sudah keluar dari otak. Ide brilian bertempat di bawah-ide-ide pada umumnya. Sehingga untuk mendapatkan ide tersebut kita harus mencarinya. Tidak cukup merenungkan saja. Banyak diantara kita yang beranggapan bahwa untuk menghasilkan ide yang brilian harus merenung lama. Bagi saya tidak, sebuah ide brilian tidak akan muncul ketika kita merenung.
Akhirnya, tugas kita sebenarnya bukanlah menciptakan ide-ide brilian. Hak mencipta hanyalah milik Allah. Semua ide itu berasal dari Allah. Manusia hanya dituntut untuk memfasilitasi agar ide-ide tersebut bisa tersalurkan dengan baik. Jadi, kalau rasa gatal sudah diciptakan Allah kenapa kita tidak berusaha untuk menggaruknya.
10 Resep jadi Penulis
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Suka Membaca
Suka Membaca
Membaca tentu bukan asal baca, apalagi membaca apa saja. Kita perlu menetapkan skala prioritas apa yang kita baca sesuai dengan kebutuhan kita. Misalkan Anda seorang muslim, dalam satu bulan minimal tiga jenis buku yang perlu dibaca. Buku tentang keagamaan, buku sesuai dengan latarbelakang pendidikan dan buku yang sesuai dengan minatnya. Dengan skala prioritas tersebut otak kita tidak dijejali beragam informasi yang justru membuat kita pusing, tapi informasi yang sesuai dengan kebutuhan kita sebagai seorang penulis nantinya.
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Suka Kliping
Kliping tak hanya soal gunting menggunting koran. Jaman sekarang, kliping bisa berupa data digital. Yah, semua orang tahu, kita tinggal mengunduh materi-materi sesuai dengan kebutuhan kita melalui jejaring dunia maya. Ingat, jangan terjebak untuk mengoleksi banyak informasi yang sebenarnya tidak kita butuhkan. Sekali lagi tetapkan prioritas untuk mengkoleksi informasi sebaga bahan mentah untuk karya yang akan kita buat kelak. Kliping gunanya hanyalah untuk menambah khasanah karya kita, yang paling penting tetap orisinalitas ide kita dalam sebuah karya.
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Miliki Diary
Diary (catatan harian) perlu dimiliki oleh (calon) penulis. Diary akan melatih orang untuk jujur pada diri sendiri. Menuliskan sepenggal goresan spontanitas apa yang dirasakan. Kelak menulis secara jujur akan sangat berguna bagi karier kepenulisan. Sebab, bisa mengantarkan penulis untuk menulis dengan hati. Yah, harapannya ketika orang menulis dengan hati, pesannya akan sampai ke hati juga. Mulia sekali bukan penulis yang seperti ini.
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Miliki Buku Sakti
Berbeda dengan diary. Buku sakti adalah bank data. Berisi kutipan buku-buku yang pernah kita baca, hasil-hasil penelitian dan juga momen-momen penting yang terjadi di dunia. Untuk apa buku sakti ini perlu kita miliki? Yah, seperti papatah mengatakan the palest ink is better than the best memory (tinta yang kabur sekalipun masih lebih baik daripada ingatan yang tajam). Ketika kita ingin menulis sebuah karya, untuk memperkaya khasanah kita tinggal membuka bank data tersebut. Misalnya ketika akan menulis artikel berjudul “Televisi itu Candu”, untuk memperkayanya, kita tinggal membaca rangkuman dan kutipan buku terkait televisi yang pernah kita baca beserta hasil-hasil penelitian terkait dengannya. Adanya buku sakti ini sebenarnya adalah usaha sebuah manajemen karier kepenulisan agar lebih tertata dengan baik.
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Miliki Blog
Blog ibarat tabungan karya. Memang lebih bagus kalau blog kita itu spesifik dalam arti wadah menuliskan hal-hal yang tidak beragam. Satu tema saja. Dengan begitu, ketika kita menuliskan karya dalam blog kita, sesungguhnya adalah sedang menabung. Kita menabung karya yang punya potensi kelak disulap menjadi sebuah buku. Selain itu, memiliki blog juga bisa sebagai ajang latihan kita dalam menuliskan karya. Disana tulisan kita akan mendapat respon dari pembaca. Dengan demikian menjadi sebuah pembelajaran dan masukan tersendiri agar kelak kita bisa berkarya lebih baik lagi.
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Gabung Milis Kepenulisan
Milis adalah forun diskusi di dunia maya. Kita bisa mengikutinya, banyak sekali milis tentang dunia kepenulisan. Misalnya milis terbesar kepenulisan seperti penulislepas@yahoogroups.com, forum_lingkarpena@yahoogroups.com, apresiasi-sastra@yahoogroups.com dsb. Dengan bergabung dengan milis kepenulisan, kita bisa mendapat banyak informasi yang mendukung karier sebagai penulis seperti kiat-kiat kepenulisan, bedah karya maupun beragam informasi lomba kepenulisan di mana kita juga bisa berkiprah di dalamnya.
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Kunjungi Perpustakaan dan Toko Buku
Kemana orang berlibur? Bisa ke pantai, mall, tempat-tempat wisata dsb. Tapi bagi orang yang ngebet pingin jadi penulis, liburan bisa digunakan untuk mengunjungi perpustakaan. Disana kita bisa refresing sekaligus menambah wawasan bagi otak kita. Ke toko buku juga perlu, selain kita bisa membaca sekilas buku-buku yang ada. Kita juga bisa mendapatkan inspirasi judul-judul buku yang laris manis di pasaran. Selanjutnya, kita berharap bisa memunculkan karya atau buku-buku yang digemari masyarakat pula.
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Datangi Acara Kepenulisan
Penting sekali yang ini. Dengan mendatangi acara kepenulisan, terutama acara bedah buku, kita akan banyak mendapatkan ilmu. Biasanya adalah ilmu tentang proses kreatif sang pengarang buku. Bagaimana lika-likunya, mulai dari mendapatkan inspirasi, proses penulisan, mencari penerbit, sampai menyaksikan bukunya bisa dibaca orang lain dan barangkali bisa best seller, dicetak berulang-ulang. Dengan mengetahui cerita tersebut, kita juga bisa melakukan hal yang sama. Menjadi penulis “hebat”. Tentu dengan cara yang berbeda.
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Ikuti Komunitas Kepenulisan
Ikut komunitas kepenulisan itu perlu. Dengan mengikuti komunitas kepenulisan kita bisa berbagi pengalaman dalam berkarya. Begitu juga bisa saling memberikan kritikan dan masukan pada karya yang dibuat anggota. Dengan begitu akan matang sebelum karya benar-benar dikirimkan ke berbagai media maupun penerbit. Dengan ikut komunitas pula akan memberikan semangat kepada kita untuk berkarya. Biasanya kita akan terpacu dan bersemangat berkarya ketika ada salah satu anggota yang karyanya bisa tembus ke media massa maupun bukunya diterbitkan.
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Angkat Mentor Inspiratif
Siapa mentor inspiratif itu? Dia adalah penulis favorit kita. Kita perlu mengangkat mentor walaupun tanpa kontak dengannya. Cukup kita mengakrabi karya-karyanya. Mentor ini gunanya dalam soal gaya menulis maupun bercerita. Bukan hal yang haram ketika kita mengikuti gaya menulis seseorang. Yang penting kita tetap punya ide orisinil tersendiri. Adanya mentor yang kita angkat sendiri ini akan membantu kita. Misalnya, akan menulis novel inspiratif, kita perlu mengangkat Paulo Choelo sebagai mentor. Ini sekedar contoh saja. Jadi karya kita nantinya berbau karya dia dalam soal gaya kepenulisan.
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