cost of love.

"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."
-Merle Shan

hatred v. love

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

love hurts.

"Love is good in feeling, even if you are always being hurt. It is better to be hurt by love than not loving at all"
-Anonymous

expression of simplicity.

"Love is the expression of simplicity in emotion, the unattainable longing that comes so unexpectedly, with great subtlety and bliss."
-Luen Dao