Love + Hate

Love + Hate

What I Love About You | Love Poems

I love the way you talk,
I love the way you smell,
I love the way you make me laugh,
Even when my life's a living hell.

I love your smile,
And your soft and gentle touch,
I love the way you show you care,
When the world seems like too much.

I love the way you hold me,
And make all my fears go away,
I love the way you protect me,
So I know you?re here to stay.

I love the way you understand,
And never let me give up,
I love the way you're always here,
To keep my spirits up.

I love the way you look at me,
And always bring out the best,
I love the way you lift me up,
And put me above all the rest.

I love the way you know what to say
When I'm really mad,
I love the way you wipe away my tears,
When I'm really sad.

I love the way you hug me,
Or sweetly kiss my cheek,
I love the way you play with my hair,
And make me feel unique.

I love the way you make me feel,
Like I'm floating on a cloud,
You look at me like I'm special,
And not just another face in the crowd.

I love the way you know me so well,
And know when to give me my space,
And when I'm ready to talk,
I can always count on seeing your smiling face.

I love everything about you,
From your smile to your loving heart,
I love the kind of person you are,
How you're sweet and honest and smart.

You've found a place in my heart
As such a special friend,
And I know that you love me,
For real and not pretend.

With time my feelings for you have grown,
But are still constantly changing,
The thoughts in my head and love in my heart,
Are constantly rearranging.

I love you like any friend would,
If not a little more,
But I don't understand these feelings yet,
So I can't proclaim them and even the score.

But please don't let the friendship and love you've shown ever die and wither,
Because they're something I'll cherish,
And hold in my heart forever.

Please Hear What I'm Not Saying

Don't be fooled by me.
Don't be fooled by the face I wear for I wear a mask,
a thousand masks,
masks that I'm afraid to take off,
and none of them is me.









Pretending is an art that's second nature with me,
but don't be fooled, for God's sake don't be fooled.
I give you the impression that I'm secure,
that all is sunny and unruffled with me,
within as well as without,
that confidence is my name and coolness my game,
that the water's calm and I'm in command and that I need no one,
but don't believe me.
My surface may seem smooth but my surface is my mask,
ever-varying and ever-concealing.
Beneath lies no complacence.
Beneath lies confusion, and fear, and aloneness.
But I hide this.
I don't want anybody to know it.
I panic at the thought of my weakness exposed.
That's why I frantically create a mask to hide behind,
a nonchalant sophisticated facade,
to help me pretend,
to shield me from the glance that knows.

But such a glance is precisely my salvation,
my only hope, and I know it.
That is, if it's followed by acceptance,
if it's followed by love.
It's the only thing that can liberate me from myself,
from my own self-built prison walls,
from the barriers I so painstakingly erect.
It's the only thing that will assure me of what I can't assure myself,
that I'm really worth something.
But I don't tell you this.
I don't dare to, I'm afraid to.
I'm afraid your glance will not be followed by acceptance,
will not be followed by love.
I'm afraid you'll think less of me,
that you'll laugh, and your laugh would kill me.
I'm afraid that deep-down I'm nothing
and that you will see this and reject me.

So I play my game, my desperate pretending game,
with a facade of assurance without and a trembling child within.
So begins the glittering but empty parade of masks,
and my life becomes a front.
I tell you everything that's really nothing,
and nothing of what's everything,
of what's crying within me.
So when I'm going through my routine
do not be fooled by what I'm saying.
Please listen carefully and try to hear what I'm not saying,
what I'd like to be able to say,
what for survival I need to say,
but what I can't say.

I don't like hiding.
I don't like playing superficial phony games.
I want to stop playing them.
I want to be genuine and spontaneous and me
but you've got to help me.
You've got to hold out your hand
even when that's the last thing I seem to want.
Only you can wipe away from my eyes
the blank stare of the breathing dead.
Only you can call me into aliveness.
Each time you're kind, and gentle, and encouraging,
each time you try to understand because you really care,
my heart begins to grow wings--
very small wings,
very feeble wings,
but wings!

With your power to touch me into feeling
you can breathe life into me.
I want you to know that.
I want you to know how important you are to me,
how you can be a creator--an honest-to-God creator--
of the person that is me if you choose to.
You alone can break down the wall behind which I tremble,
you alone can remove my mask,
you alone can release me from my shadow-world of panic,
from my lonely prison,
if you choose to.
Please choose to.

Do not pass me by.
It will not be easy for you.
A long conviction of worthlessness builds strong walls.
The nearer you approach to me the blinder I may strike back.
It's irrational, but despite what the books say about man
often I am irrational.
I fight against the very thing I cry out for.
But I am told that love is stronger than strong walls
and in this lies my hope.
Please try to beat down those walls
with firm hands but with gentle hands
for a child is very sensitive.

Who am I, you may wonder?
I am someone you know very well.
For I am every man you meet
and I am every woman you meet.

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Love Quotes | Famous Love Quotes | Love is Life Quotes

Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul.
George Harrison

With our love, we could save the world.
George Harrison

Live with passion!
Anthony Robbins

I have a wonderful network of friends and feel blessed to be surounded by so many people I love.
Linda Evans

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
Charles Schulz

Fear less, hope more,
eat less, chew more,
whine less, breathe more,
talk less, say more,
hate less, love more,
and all good things will be yours.
Swedish Proverb

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato

The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. Brian Tracy

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. Oprah Winfrey

Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. Maya Angelou

I've decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people. Leo Tolstoy

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? Bob Hope

We sometimes take our love ones for granted, and we expect that they will be with us forever.Catherine Pulsifer

Love one another. George Harrison

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.Washington Irving

Love yourself—accept yourself—forgive yourself—and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.Leo Buscaglia

Man is only great when he acts from passion. Benjamin Disraeli

It's an incredibly liberating thing when you stop worrying about what other people think about you. Now I just need me to love me and, as a result, I'm a much better friend, girlfriend, sister, aunt, everything. Linda Evans

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. Jean Paul Richter

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. William Butler Yeats

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.George Bernard Shaw

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. Benjamin Disraeli

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.Leo Tolstoy

Treat yourself on Valentines Day… if you don't love yourself then you will never be able to love others in a meaningful way.Catherine Pulsifer

Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? Richard Bach

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. Jean Paul Richter

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. Wayne Dyer

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart. Leo Buscaglia

All mankind love a lover. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. Latin Proverb

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens. Wayne Dyer

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. Henry Ward Beecher

Take away love and our earth is a tomb. Robert Browning

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. Thomas Fuller

Be generous! Give to those you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate - yes, give especially to those you don't want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have! W. Clement Stone

Love and faith are seen in works. Spanish Proverb

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.Satchel Paige