Antoine de Saint-Exupery says it is the time you have wasted for your rose…

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Attempted Love

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

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Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse sing I tell you I mean it…

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Attempted Love
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Sara Gruen says I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast…

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Attempted Love

“I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.”

I want.”

– Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

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Thomas Burnett Swann says love can never be compelled…

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Attempted Love

“…she grasped the terrible truth that love can never be compelled, from man, from sprite, from beast; that one who loves, however she longs for requital, however long she waits, may receive in return the reverse of what she gives, the dark side of the moon.”

– Thomas Burnett Swann, The Weirwoods

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Marcel Proust says it is a terrible deception of love…

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Attempted Love

‘It’s a terrible deception of love that it begins by engaging us in play not with a woman of the external world but with a doll fashioned in our
brain—the only woman moreover that we have always at our disposal, the only one we shall ever possess.”

– Marcel Proust

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Eckhart Tolle says love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself…

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Attempted Love

“Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance. But they are not what I would call emotions. They lie beyond the emotions, on a much deeper level. So you need to become fully conscious of your emotions and be able to feel them before you can feel that which lies beyond them.”

– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

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Will Hard says I’ve never really been able to understand my love for you…

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Attempted Love

I’ve never really been able to understand my love for you.

It just is.  It can’t be questioned.  It is an unrelenting force in my life.

I’ve tried to understand the source or the cause.  This blog is part of that attempt.  Random books on my bookshelf are part of the attempt.

Aristotle said “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”  Perhaps I should attempt the epic novel explaining how each of these cause my love for you.

Why bother.

It just is.  It can’t be questioned.  It is an unrelenting force in my life.

Will Hard – Publisher, Attempted Love

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