Lauren Allison > Lauren's Quotes

“Every soul needs a touch of erotic love. A deep, unconditional love is what every heart truly desires. True love is passionately erotic.”
― Salil Jha, Naked Soul: The Erotic Love Poems

“Love is the true state of the human heart. When we love, we unguard our hearts. We open ourselves up to the world with- out any restraint. When passion flows, desires stir, our earthy senses become dull, and our ethereal self becomes illumined. At this stage, we are naked, totally naked, with little or no covering of ego.”
― Salil Jha, Naked Soul: The Erotic Love Poems

“Poems are word paintings. Poetry doesn’t belong to time. That’s why often you feel as if poems are speaking directly to you.”
― Salil Jha, Naked Soul: The Erotic Love Poems

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Throw me to the wolves, and I will come back leading the pack.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“because somewhere along the way, 'I hate you' became our 'I love you”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!”
― Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father's Advice to His Son

“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
― Michael J. Fox

“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.”
― Taylor Swift

“Raise a glass, 'cause I'm not done saying it.
They all wanna get rough, get away with it.
Let 'em talk 'cause we're dancing in this world alone, world alone, we're all alone.”
― Lorde, Lorde - Pure Heroine Songbook: Piano/Vocal/Guitar