More from Leonard Cohen
When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I’m planning a catastrophe.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen
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I am the universe, and every possibility belongs to me.
Courtney PeppernellCourtney Peppernell The only thing that changed about you is me.
Elaine HaysElaine Hays He is my heaven and my hell. Serving passion and poison with the same spoon, and i am a sucker for a taste.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney My mistakes tell me I am quite human, but my brief flashes of brilliance tell me I am divine, too.
Rachel WolchinRachel Wolchin She now finds solace in vanilla-scented daydreams, as her soul sings away in a musical symphony of humid breaths and well-favored smiles.
Megan LaoMegan Lao Some things won’t change-some things can’t.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry My blood is fifty percent alcohol the other half was you.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Darling, you don’t fear love, you fear of loving wrong.
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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
Thomas SowellThomas Sowell Love is a decision – not an emotion!
Lao TzuLao Tzu What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamA. P. J. Abdul Kalam The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.
Steve JobsSteve Jobs Every day we make decisions, big and small. Those choices paint a picture of who we are.
Simon SinekSimon Sinek Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.
Jeff BezozJeff Bezoz People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.
Richard BransonRichard Branson The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.
Nelson MandelaNelson Mandela