Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives.”
— bell hooks (via swissmiss)
The First Step
Tag: Love
Dark Red // Steve Lacy
What if she’s fine
It’s my mind that’s wrong
And I just let bad thoughts
Linger for far too long
What if (if!), she’s fine (fine!)
It’s my mind that’s wrong
And I just (just!) let bad thoughts (thoughts!)
Linger for far too long
Frank O’Hara
In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”
— Frank O’Hara, Meditations in an Emergency (via Existential Sheddings)
Simone Weil on Love and Distance
To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.”
— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (via Existential Celestial)
“So how might one learn to love another without reducing the other to recognizability, without fixing the other to a single unchangeable name?
Or should it go the other way around: must the lover consent to being forever misrecognized? Is allowing oneself to be transfixed a fundamental part of loving and being loved?”
— Elvia Wilk, Ask Before You Bite
In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.”
— baba dioum (via swissmiss)
On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering. We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love. I want suffering in order to love.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
