“Think of it this way.” said Helmholtz.  “Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it.  It can be done.  You can do it.”
A small cry of despair came from Jim Donnini.  It was meant to be private, but it pierced every ear with its poignancy.
“How?”, said Jim.
“Love yourself,” said Helmholtz, “and make your instrument sing about it.
A-one, a-two, a-three.” Down came his baton.

Kurt Vonnegut - ‘The Kid Nobody Could Handle’

“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.”
- M.F.K. Fisher

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

Oscar Wilde

Love is vast attachment,
inseparable from,
an even greater dynamism devoted to the full and complete creative realisation of the object of one’s love.
That is, to quote Sting, “If you love someone, set them free.”
So, loving someone is impossible without the capacity to suffer through loss and heartbreak: what you love and have come to fuse into your life, you must, in the action of loving liberation, be able to let go.

Freedom from suffering is not an attribute of love.
Select freedom from suffering as your ultimate goal,
and you can love no more.

Where fiction enlivens fact,
where the imagination gives rise to the empirical,
where art precedes science,
function follows form.

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
John Lennon

Evolution is both a design and a designer; it’s a process of designing.

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power,
the world will know peace.”

Jimi Hendrix

“They must find it difficult…
Those who have taken authority as the truth,
rather than truth as the authority.”
Gerald Massey

Love is that which calls us out of our egotism and self-centredness into an openness to, and a deeper interelatedness with, others, and with the universe as a whole.