“When love bites the dust, we must learn to recognize the demons of our failures. ("I seek you")” LoveDemonsFailuresRecognizeI Seek YouBite The Dust Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When love stealthily settles down in our inner world as we dwell through fields of expectations with eyes wide open, unfurling sceneries of wonderment slowly unroll on our path and overwhelm our mindset. ("I seek you")” LoveExpectationsMindsetInner WorldWondermentI Seek YouUnfurlingSceneriesWith Eyes Wide Open Author:Erik Pevernagie
“If love is not tied to a desire for reciprocity or mutual recognition, we should make no emotional investment, leaving behind only memories of lost hope or broken promises. ("Poste Restante")” LoveMemoriesReciprocityBroken PromisesMutual UnderstandingLost HopeEmotional InvestmentPoste RestanteMutual Recognition Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Many people cannot love themselves because they only love the illusions that they make of themselves. They merely like to wallow around in the narcissistic cocoon delusively constructed with the bits and pieces of their deceptions. ("Being my best friend" )” LoveNarcissisticIllusionsDeceptionsCocoonWallowBeing My Best FriendDelusive Author:Erik Pevernagie
“One day it may feel as if energy and enthusiasm are quenched, feelings dried up and emotions scorched, love and affection tangled in a harsh and uninviting setting. Nothing seems to grow anymore. No seed. No flowers. No foreseeable hope. No conceivable prospects. Any blossom of expectation seems to have become an illusion and life appears to have come to a standstill. If no seed of loving care is sown in the untilled, abandoned land, no bud can come into flower. Singer Amy Winehouse felt like lying fallow in the ground of a wasteland "with tears dry, dying a hundred times, going back to black" and leaving eventually for a place of ultimate sorrow and heartbreak, for a point of no return. ( “Amour en friche” )” LoveLifeFeelingsCareHopeTearsSorrowHeartbreakEmotionsIllusionAffectionExpectationWastelandFallowPoint Of No ReturnAmy Winehouse Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we are smitten, we await love to be “remontant” and to be blooming over and over again”, like remontant roses, with blossoms scenting through all the seasons of life. Passion and patience are to be good allies, though.” LoveLifePassionSeasonsPatienceAlliesScentRosesBloomingSmittenBlossomsAwaitRemontantRemontant Roses Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we confront the essence of our desires and the void left in their absence, we step into the twilight zone in the tapestry of our emotional panorama. It's here that we come to a profound recognition: desires are not just fleeting whims but the very fabric that shapes our understanding of love and connection, inviting us to a deeper level of introspection and enlightenment. (“Crépuscule du désir “)” LoveEnlightenmentVoidIntrospectionDesiresTwilight ZoneCrépuscule Du DésirEmotional Paronama Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Love is blind. Love of money is blind. Greed and money make people forfeit the quiddity of life, banish them from what is essential and alienate them from themselves. They lose their identity and become drifting exiles. ( "Money rocking and rolling" )” LoveLifeMoneyIdentityBlindGreedAlienationExiles Author:Erik Pevernagie
“The vagaries of love with all its unpredictable and capricious meanders may be a hurdle in keeping life on an even keel. Rational thinking and irrational feeling don’t always get along very well. ( "Love as dizzy as a cathedral”)” LoveLifeUnpredictableRational ThinkingHurdleCapriciousVagariesMeanderIrrational FeelingKeep On An Even Keel Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Emotional illiterates, who don’t recognize the sound of a broken heart, will never be able to hear the subtle vibrations of love reverberating through the rustling flora of life. ("Love as dizzy as a cathedral”)” LoveLifeSoundEmotionalSubtleBroken HeartVibrationsDizzyFloraRecognizeIlliteratesRustlingReverberate Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When love becomes a play of squirming mindgames or a tinderbox of mental conflicts, emotional benchmarks need an unremitting reset. ("Another empty room")” LovePlayEmotionalEmptyMentalConflictsResetRoomMindgamesBenchmarksSquirmingUnremittingTinderbox Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Love has the power to create an inviting space in the lives of people. But if daily routine kills dreamy or passionate thoughts, the constraint of the room may become oppressive and the emptiness unbearable. The room loses then its original fullness and turns into a place of nothingness. ( " Another empty room" )” PeopleLoveSpaceLove QuotesPowerThoughtsPassionateEmptinessRoutineNothingnessCreateFullnessUnbearableLivesLosePlaceInvitingOriginalDreamyDailyRoomOppressiveConstraint Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Love can become art when it fulfills each other's expectations by living graciously "in alliance' with each other without making do with skimpily 'living together' or aiming at overpowering or taking possession of the other..("I wonder what went wrong")” LoveExpectationsLiving TogetherOverpoweringGraciouslyWhat Went WrongLiving In AllianceTaking Possession Author:Erik Pevernagie
“If love does not make us reborn from ourselves, if it does not bring out the best values in us, if it does not reveal us to ourselves, life has dispossessed us, and the reasons are hidden in the dark chambers of our past. (“Amour en friche »)” LovePastRevealAmour En FricheReborn From OurselvesBest ValuesDark ChambersDispossesed Author:Erik Pevernagie
“It is so simple and easy to hate and so grueling and hard to love, when the emotional “love forever”- revelation has become a crumbling “love never, ever again”- crack-up. There is no route back to a paradise lost, when the bonds of trust have, irrevocably, been blasted. ("Another empty room")” LoveHardHateEasySimpleEmotionalTrustEmptyRevelationCrumblingBondsRoomParadise LostLove ForeverGruelingBlastedCrack UpIrrevocablyLove Never AgainRoute Back Author:Erik Pevernagie
“After dispelling love or ravaging hate has done its work, we may come into remission from sorrow or regret and needn’t freak out while creating a soothing space for cuddling up into the warmth of a new haven. (“Finally unbend.”)” LoveHateRegretSorrowRemissionDispellingFreak OutCuddling UpRavageNew Haven Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Since love and hate can be fierce partners in crime, it is highly recommended to trace any early indicia of the fault lines in a shaky relationship in order to avert irreparable damage. ("Mes cliques et mes claques" )” LoveHateRelationshipDamageAvertIrreparablePartners In CrimeFault LinesShakyIndicia Author:Erik Pevernagie
“By squirming out of our dungeon of indifference and wriggling from ourself-centered vault of unawareness, love can conjure up an aura of mental opulence and an inkling of infinity.( "Love as dizzy as a cathedral”)” LoveIndifferenceInfinityMentalDizzyUnawarenessOpulenceAuraCathedralDungeonVaultInklingSquirmingConjure UpOurself CenteredWriggle Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When attention turns into indifference or love fades away into a grey zone of discomfort, only imagination can bring us back to the limelight of life. ("Is that all there is?")” LoveLifeImaginationAttentionIndifferenceDiscomfortFade AwayLimelightIs That All There IsGrey Zone Author:Erik Pevernagie