Heart and Soul


Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce,
but still only light and flickering.
The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals,
deep-burning, unquenchable.
- Henry Ward Beecher


5/12/22
















Billy Joel Lyrics
"The Longest Time"

Woah, oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
Woah, oh, oh
For the longest

If you said goodbye to me tonight
There would still be music left to write
What else could I do
I'm so inspired by you
That hasn't happened for the longest time

Once I thought my innocence was gone
Now I know that happiness goes on
That's where you found me
When you put your arms around me
I haven't been there for the longest time

Woah, oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
Woah, oh, oh
For the longest

I'm that voice you're hearing in the hall
And the greatest miracle of all
Is how I need you
And how you needed me too
That hasn't happened for the longest time

Maybe this won't last very long
But you feel so right
And I could be wrong
Maybe I've been hoping too hard
But I've gone this far
And it's more than I hoped for

Who knows how much further we'll go on
Maybe I'll be sorry when you're gone
I'll take my chances
I forgot how nice romance is
I haven't been there for the longest time

I had second thoughts at the start
I said to myself
Hold on to your heart
Now I know the woman that you are
You're wonderful so far
And it's more than I hoped for

I don't care what consequence it brings
I have been a fool for lesser things
I want you so bad
I think you ought to know
"That I intend to hold you for the longest time!"

Woah, oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
Woah, oh, oh
For the longest time
Woah, oh, oh
For the longest time
Woah, oh, oh
For the longest time
Woah, oh, oh
For the longest time...


The Look of Love
Dusty Springfield

Enya - Orinoco Flow

Journey - Faithfully

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You


The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller


Authors, poets and playwrights have been trying to capture love in words for thousands of years.

Their work speaks to the enduring power of love across the ages of human history


Extreme - More Than Words

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle


The Police - Every Breath You Take

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu


I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way than this:
where I does not exist nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
- Pablo Neruda, "Love Sonnet XVII"
- Leo Tolstoy

Love is life.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.


Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking outward in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love (1977)