More from Victor Hugo
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Those who do not weep, do not see.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Not being heard is no reason for silence.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo When love has fused and mingled two beings in sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Wisdom is the health of the soul.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Toleration is the best religion.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo People do not lack strength, they lack will.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo
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Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
Melody LeeMelody Lee Oh moonlight, continue to shine on me. As you light up the sky, maybe some peace will come to me.
ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Live to be happy not to impress.
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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, ‘love lifts me.’
HafezHafez Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark.
Max LucadoMax Lucado I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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