Lyric: The Rose

Some say love, it is a river,
That drowns the tender reed.
Some say love, it is a razor,
That leaves your soul to bleed.
Some say love, it is a hunger,
An endless, aching need.
I say love, it is a flower,
And you, it's only seed.

It's a heart afraid of breaking,
That never learns to dance.
It's the dream, afraid of waking,
That never takes the chance.
It's the one who won't be taken,
Who cannot seem to give.
And the soul, afraid of dying,
That never learns to live.

When the night has been too lonely,
And the road has been too long,
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong:
Just remember, in the winter,
Far beneath the bitter snows,
Lies the seed, that with the sun's love
In the Spring, becomes the rose.

- Bette Midler

Thoughts On Love

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

Success is nothing, without someone you love to share it with. -Billy Dee Williams in the movie, Mahogany

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive t. - Dr. Karl Menninger

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. - Joan Crawford

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. - Jeanne Moreau

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. - John Wesley

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. - David Chambless

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." - Erich Fromm

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. - Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. - Mignon McLaughlin

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. - Francois de La Rouchefoucauld

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever
you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. - Ogden Nash

The course of true love never did run smooth. - William Shakespeare

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. - Henny Youngman

Men always want to be a woman's first love, women like to be a man's last romance. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along. - Joyce Brothers

To Love and Be Loved

There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far, very far
Over land and sea
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he

And then one day
A magic day he passed my way
And while we spoke of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return"