Some more of Chrissy's thoughts.

~ The Burning Flame~

You are so dear,

You're my heart's desire.

When we're together My heart's on fire.

A burning flame That burns strong and bright.

Oh, but that flame!

That flame is so enduring Intensified by an immense yearning

Leaping carelessly while I'm away,

Only to flicker But sure to stay.

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"Love has built a bridge"

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"Wild Love"

Lost In Love

(With You)

At times it seems like a fantasy,

and this is my way of saying I Love You.

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"LOVE IS"

needs, and desires.
Love is the source of sharing,
Love is knowing that the other

all times.
Love is the source of security,
Love is the source of life.

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"Though I spent forever"

What I've found in you.

Love Quotes

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

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge

Love makes the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from being dizzy.
Anonymous

Some people grumble that roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr

She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.
Lord Byron,Hebrew Melodies

Like music on the waters is thy sweet voice to me.
Lord Byron, Stanzas for Music

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Robert Browning Sonnets from the Portugese

I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Robert Browning Sonnets from the Portugese

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
Robert Burns, A Fond Kiss

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning to Elizabeth BarrettBrowning

I am my beloved, and my beloved is me.
The Bible, The Song of Solomon

We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe, Annabelle Lee

Come lie with me and be my love and we will some new pleasures.
John Donne

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Pains of love be sweeter far Than all the other pleasures are.
John Dryden, English poet

Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done.
F. W. Bourdillon, Light

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

There are never enough "I love yous".
Lenny Bruce

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron

The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Holland J. G

A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is home.
Anonymous

Life is short and we never have too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Amiel, Henri -Fre'deric

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbors shoulder is to pat him on the back.
Anonymous

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Arnay, Janos

The love of nature is consolation against failure.
Morisot, Berthe

If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Nin, Anais

Please all, and you will please none.
Aesop

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Anonymous

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
Anonymous

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.
Keyes, Ken Jr

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Gibran, Kahil

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Theresa

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Amiel, Henri Frederick

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.
Keith, Sir Arthur

Life is a journey, and love is what makes that journey worthwhile.
Unknown

Love is the beauty of the soul.
St. Augustine

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus

.Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran, from The Prophet

.In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.
Margaret of Valois

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Wilde, Oscar

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
Gibran, Kahli

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with all other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
John Muir

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.
Lord Dunsany, The Laughter of the Gods

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Pascal, Pensees

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.
John Hughes Holmes

And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky,
Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die,
Lift not your hands to It for help - for It
As impotently rolls as you or I.
Omar Khayyam/Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.
John Fowles, The Magus

A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings.
Francis Henry Taylor

Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm which is that of the mind alone.
Loren Eiseley, Strangeness in the Proportion

This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all.... On a still night, when the campfire is low and the Pleiades have climbed over rimrocks, sit quietly and listen ... and think hard of everything you have seen and tried to understand. Then you may hear it - a vast pulsing harmony - its score inscribed on a thousand hills, its notes the lives and deaths of plants and animals, its rhythms spanning the seconds and the centuries.
Aldo Leopold

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
William Butler Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.
Angelius Silesius

Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
Montaigne, "On the custom of wearing clothes"

Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.
Montaigne, "Apology for Raymond Sebonde"

For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel.
Montaigne, "Apology for Raymond Sebonde"

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.
Montaigne, "Apology for Raymond Sebonde"

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.
Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth

We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

Human bodies are words, myriads of words,
(In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay,
Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.
Charis Wilson

Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.
Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth

There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens. The zoologist now has to start making comparisons. Where else is nudity at a premium.
Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape

It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature. Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows us to feel at home in our skin. Other animals have coats that they accept, but the human race has yet to come to terms with being nude.
Ruth Bernhard

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
Katherine Mansfield

Whatever the reasons, I enjoyed being nude; it felt natural to me. I got the same kind of pleasure from being free of clothing that many people get from being well dressed.
Charis Wilson

Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.
Paul Gauguin, Noa, Noa: The Tahitian Journal

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Son of Tarzan

By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep terra-cotta brown and was the constituency of harness leather. The sun no longer penetrated it. I retained my hat.
Robyn Davidson, Tracks

The best dress for walking is nakedness. But our sad though fascinating world rarely offers the right and necessary combinations of weather and privacy, and even when it does the Utopia never seems to last very long.
Colin Fletcher, The Complete Walker III

Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be a man. But as I walked on eastward that afternoon through my private, segregated, Tonto world (exercising due care at first for previously protected sectors of my anatomy) I found I had gained more than coolness. I felt a quite unexpected freedom from restraint. And after a while I found that I had moved on to a new kind of simplicity. A simplicity that had a fitting, Adam-like, in-the-beginning earliness about it.
Colin Fletcher, The Man Who Walked Through Time

By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost delirious sense of simplicity. In this new simplicity you soon find that you have become, in a new and surer sense, and integral part of the simple, complex world you are walking through. And then you are really walking.
Colin Fletcher, The Complete Walker III

Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me.
Colin Fletcher, The Man Who Walked Through Time

At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon, the blue sky, the nude figure.
Robert Grudin, Time and the Art of Living

With a little inner pirouette of excitement I realised just how much there was to look forward to tomorrow. The thought of being all day naked in the sun was delicious enough in itself, but there was the whole of our new world to explore.
Lucy Irvine, Castaway

In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very soon I abandoned this habit, and the only bit of material I ever wore was the strip of sari cloth around my hips, which was so useful for making into a bag to collect coconuts on walks.
Lucy Irvine, Castaway

Last night I had rinsed out my sari strip and briefs in the sea. I walked down naked to where they hung in the branches of the silvery leafed tree beside the creek. Underneath the lazy sensuality of a luxurious stretch from toes to nose I felt the strong unequivocal demand of my blood. I hugged myself for a moment watching the grey light yield to dawn through half-closed eyes.
Lucy Irvine, Castaway

She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved, as I should step out of a soiled chemise.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek

Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully.
Wynn Bullock

I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked.
Walt Whitman

Never before did I get so close to Nature; never before did she come so close to me... Nature was naked, and I was also... Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! - ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness the indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability, that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent. Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating extasy of nakedness in Nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has not really known what purity is--nor what faith or art or health really is.
Walt Whitman, A Sun-bathed Nakedness

The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one's flesh like radiant heat, making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow not explainable.
John Muir

Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our bodies might be able to teach about the spirit of life. At least, I am always exploring and trying to understand our relationship to the whole universe.
Ruth Bernhard

The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings.
Ruth Bernhard

If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.
Walt Whitman, "I Sing The Body Electric"

Significance is inherent in the human body.
Julia Kristeva

The body says what words cannot.
Martha Graham

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?
Michelangelo

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a drain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.
Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.
Horatio Greenough

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw

To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.
Robyn Davidson, Tracks

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Rudyard Kipling

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