Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. / It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. / Love never fails. — 1 Corinthians 13 6-8 I am amazed by peace / It is this possibility of you / asleep / And breathing in the quiet air. — June Jordan, “Poem for My Love” The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that. — Cheryl Strayed, "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar" Throughout the 1990s, Pride spread across the UK. Pride Scotia launched in Scotland, with annual marches alternating between Edinburgh and Glasgow, and the first Cardiff Pride followed in 1999.

For even if I’m far away / I hold you in my heart / I sing a secret song to you / Each night we are apart. — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, “Remember Me,” (from "Coco") To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely … Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. — Eric Fromm, On Loving I found you and I loved you, / And all the world was mine. — Paul Laurence Dunbar, “A Golden Day,” from Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally. — Zelda Fitzgerald, from "Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald"

It has made me better, loving you … it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. — Henry James, "Portrait of a Lady Volume II" All love that has not friendship for its base, / Is like a mansion built upon the sand. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Upon the Sand” We want, want, want, but the people who are wanting probably have everything they need. The people who actually need are the ones who don’t even know the meaning of want. I couldn’t put it any better than Morrie said. “Don’t cling to things, because everything is impermanent. ” ~Morrie This is a belief borrowed from the Buddhists, a religion Morrie has learned a lot from. This quote means that the things in our present life are things that we will some day no longer have, therefore clinging to them is pointless. Clinging to things will only bring you misery by the time you loose them. I love you because I know no other way than this: so close that your hand on my chest is my hand—so close that when you close your eyes, I fall asleep. — Steve Oedekerk (from "Patch Adams")

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets. — Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore" One of the demands of the first Pride rally in the UK was greater legal equality for gay people. Homosexuality was partially decriminalised in England and Wales in 1967 yet police arrests of gay and bisexual men remained common in the years following.When I see your face / There’s not a thing that I would change / ‘Cause you’re amazing / Just the way you are. —Bruno Mars, “Just the Way You Are (Amazing)” It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. — Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince You’ve got to laugh a little, cry a little, / until the clouds roll by a little. / That’s the story of, that’s the glory of love. — Billy Hill, “The Glory of Love” But I love your feet / only because they walked upon the earth and upon / the wind and upon the waters, / until they found me. — Pablo Neruda, “Your Feet”

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. ― Louis de Bernières, Corelli’s Mandolin You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful. — John Green, "The Fault In Our Stars" I like to think of your silence as the love letters you will not write me, / as two sax solos from two ages across a stage, learning the languages / of kissing with your eyes closed. — Clifton Gachagua, “A Bronze God, or a Letter on Demand” from "Madman at Kilifi"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. — Nora Ephron (from “When Harry Met Sally”) In Stores & Online – 40% Off Entire Store on November 27, 2023 at 6:00 AM ET to November 29, 2023 at 5:59 AM ET. I had fun on this record,” says Kem. “There’s a lot of other musical nostalgia on here too, influences from the R&B game like the S.O.S. Band and Patrice Rushen.” He was part of my dream of course—but then I was part of his dream, too. — Lewis Carroll, "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland"