“But he who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.” – Anne Brontë I always wondered why it was the rose that was the flower symbol of love. There has to be hundreds of different flowers in the world, and yet, the world chose the rose. The rose is not a particularly interesting flower, yet nor is it a simple, boring type either. Its intrigue is somewhere in…

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed.” – Andy Warhol I suppose that is easier said than done. Some sort of physical attraction must be there for either party in a potential relationship to initiate said relationship. We are always attracted to something and usually it’s how the person looks. Whether it be how they keep their hair, or the color of their eyes, or big muscles, curvy bodies, etc,…

The feeling of longing for someone that you love and is lost. A “vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist.” Saudade (Portuguese) describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. It often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing will never return. It’s related to the feelings of longing, yearning. What makes this word so…

“Why is the measure of love loss?” – Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body I do not know, Ms Winterson, but this seems to be the case regardless of how one loss love. I think as a people, we tend to take certain things for granted and so once something is gone, we miss it more. Sometimes we don’t realize what love was until it’s no longer there for us…

I think any man or woman should be able to love any man or woman they want regardless of who they are and what people think of them. We, as a people, have absolutely no right to dictate who someone may or may not love. We should all be openminded and love one another regardless of color, gender, sexual preference and religious beliefs. Love is very powerful. Love can change…

Degas once said, “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” I can’t help but agree with this statement. I always wonder why that is. This statement could be easily applied to any form of art. I tend to say it especially for writing (because I’m a writer). People often ask me why I have trouble writing my stories and I always tell them…

“Love draws our original nature back together; he tries to reintegrate us and heal the split in our nature.” Plato once wrote that man, in his original state, was a creature with two heads, four arms, four legs, and was very powerful. Fearing man’s power, Zeus, the Almighty God of the Gods, split man in two, condemning man to be half of what he should have been, causing him to spend the rest of his life…