"Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not."

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Source : Stephen L. Carter (2002). “The Emperor of Ocean Park”, Knopf

Stephen L. Carter

#Love Is Quotes

“Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.”
“Soon as I see her walk up in the club, I'm a flirt. Winking eyes at me, when I roll up on them dubs, I'm a flirt. Sometimes when I'm with my chick on the low, I'm a flirt. And when she's wit her man looking at me, damn right, I'm a flirt.”
“My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death...”
“Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.”
“Tens of millions of people have iPods, whereas eight years ago, they didn't know they were missing them.”
“I can't choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.”
“People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are. This capacity for caring can illuminate any relationship: marriage, family, friendships-even the ties of affection that often join humans and animals. Each of us is born with some of it, but whether we let it expand or diminish is largely up to us. To care, you have to surrender the armor of indifference. You have to be willing to act, to make the first move.”
“For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.”

Source : Countee Cullen, Gerald Lyn Early (1991). “My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance”, Doubleday Books

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