This is from Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. I recommend the movie too, it is so sweet.
..let me tell you something I have never told a soul. My grandmother had a very ineresting theory; she said that each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.
For a moment we are dazzled by an intense emotion. A pleasant warmth grows within us, fading slowly as time goes by, until a new explosion comes along to revive it. Each person has to discover what will set off those explosions in order to live, since the combustion that occurs when one of them is ignited is what nourishes the soul. That fire, in short, is its food. If one doesn't find out in time what will set off these explosions, the box of matches dampens, and not a single match will ever be lighted.
If that happens, the soul flees from the body and goes to wander among the deepest shades, trying in vain to find food to nourish itself, unaware that only the body it left behind, cold and defenseless, is capable of providing that food.
I wanted to slap that mother so hard...
(Notice I didn't say I didn't like the movie; just that it was darned depressing 
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But it was a cool movie. And I want the recipes for that uber-aphrodesiac food, damnit!
The main ingredient is your emotion while cooking it... yummy!
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Illanae had this to say about Captain Planet:
Love stories are always sad, I don't know why, but they are. This one is sad, but happy too.
I think it has to do with the old saying that one must know loss before they know true happiness.
Besides, if nothing but good things happened in a love story it would be very boring.
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Lenlalron had this to say about dark elf butts:
If I can't get dates, does that mean my matches are ugly?
It just means you haven't found the one that lights your matches yet, or the one whose matches you light. You may be destined to find a lover years from now, and your Love will burn hot like a bonfire, if you burnt out all your matches now, you would be selling that hot Love short.
Listen to the Nae.
I am not saying that life is worthless without it, but why wouldn't you want to experience it?
It makes everything in life so much nicer.
Apples are crunchier, the mountains are more grand, clouds are fluffier, your heart and your very spirit absorbs more of the world around you. You begin to notice all the wonderful things in life, and you take nothing for granted. Appreciation of the beauty that surrounds you and your lover, sharing it with her/him, it is like an explosion of happiness.
I can't imagine living a life without that.
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Ozius
P.S. Avylen dislikes this qoute too! That little bugger 
Ozius
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Avylen had this to say about (_|_):
Illane, that is the exact reason I have a sort of fear of love, it is the opiate of humanity. One should be happy with what one has, and not happy as in content, but as in not searching for anything else. Love is all good and well, but if luck turns against you, can you really say you can just "roll with that punch". I think often people rely to much on things like love and/or the "combustion inside ones self" for happiness. I may love someday, but never completely I couldn't take the risk, I am fine and dandy without love, and having would just open means for pain.
Heh, we all need love. Sorry. Unless you were a street urchin, fending for yourself (and I doubt that), you need the love of your parents to live well.
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Don't be afraid to love, pain comes in so many ways, denying yourself pleasure in fear of pain is just sad.
. You are probably tired of my ramblings now so I shall stop, though I am glad I got to put my opinion on paper (errr or computer thingy if you wanna be more precise). I always like talking about things like this.Ozius
Ozius
quote:She's absolutely right.
And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Illanae was all like:
Don't be afraid to love, pain comes in so many ways, denying yourself pleasure in fear of pain is just sad.
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quote:Hey Nae, did you get this quote from somewhere else, or is it out of your own noggin? If I wanna use it, I want to know the appropriate party to give credit to.
Illanae had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
Don't be afraid to love, pain comes in so many ways, denying yourself pleasure in fear of pain is just sad.
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Avylen thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
Haha, Oz, Oz. You doom yourslef with your own words. There is nothing in the world to stop you from feeling as happy as you do when you are in love, every day of every week. The only boundary is yourself. You feel that love somehow unlocks a hidden part of yourself with a key you do not have, but again you are delusional. You control yourself completely and absolutely, so handing control over to somehting else is foolish, I am not saying love is a bad thing, I am saying the feeling that love has something which you can't get on your own is dangerous especially if you get "hooked" on the happiness of love. Stop chasing your own ghost Oz, that ghost of the miracle which shall bring you happiness, you can do it whenever you want, don't limit yourself by only being that happy with love.
Baka! You contort and misunderstand my words! But I have some work to do so we will debate this during B period tomarrow. Adios.
Ozius
"::sigh:: You know that movie Ever After? My boyfriend and I are just like that."
"Until you break up."
I mean... ow. They say the truth hurts, but... OW
quote:Hey Nae, did you get this quote from somewhere else, or is it out of your own noggin? If I wanna use it, I want to know the appropriate party to give credit to.
Densetsu had this to say about Pirotess:
[QUOTE]Illanae had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
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Don't be afraid to love, pain comes in so many ways, denying yourself pleasure in fear of pain is just sad.
[/QB][/QUOTE]It was all me baby.
<3<3<3
Olethros, I must say I like your post, I like the way you put things. Since as I have always realised the key flaw in my veiw on love is other people "Is not making other people happy good, and if so then if by loving someone you make them happy and there for love is a good act?", however I agree that love does help others, I dare say that people only feel exalted by love because again, they feel some magic occurs, they delude themselves into thinking they can't be as happy without people as with. So, again, I am not saying love is a bad thing, it can help others, but as for helping one's self, that exalting feeling connected with love only clouds the fact that a persons veiw of the world in it's entirety, no exeptions, comes from one's self and not other people at all.
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Illanae had this to say about Cuba:
hehe Densetsu! you should add "~Illanae, Pally of Love" after the quote imo!
You might laugh at me for admitting this, but it was not fun being "the new kid" all the time. I switched schools at least 6 times as I moved, and went through about 13 school buildings. I always wanted to strike back at my tormentors, but I was taught never to lash out in anger, so the anger, pain, hurt, fear, sadness, and especially lonliness was all internalized. Like those matches denied air, I was really unable, or unwilling to try and form relationships in fear that they would turn out to be bullies, or I would be forced to leave them again, which happened constantly every time I got a girlfriend.
Brief ignitions, these short friendships and mini-romances allowed me to keep going, and as I grew in physical and mental strength, I felt better about myself, but I was still forever lonely. Being in college now, and in a relationship that is likely to last, an inferno is now burning, and life is grand, but I can't help but remember the abyss I crawled away from. Loneliness is perhaps the most damaging of all negative emotions, because we depend on others for so much, to share our sorrows and joys, to live out our lives in each other's company. Something I have always lacked, until recently.
You may be thinking, "What does this guy have to complain about? There's plenty worse off than him..." Well, most people, even if they live in a cardboard box has somebody that shares their situation, someone that's kind to them in their times of need, someone that will always be there. Growing up, I had no such sense of that outside my family. People who have gone through divorces still have 1 parent and still likely have all their friends. People living in the ghetto still have their homies. I had nobody I could count on to be there next year.
These two songs by Linkin Park fairly sum of the majority of my life:
BY MYSELF:
What do I do to ignore them behind me?
Do I follow my instincts blindly?
Do I hide my pride / from these bad dreams
And give in to sad thoughts that are maddening?
Do I / sit here and try to stand it?
Or do I / try to catch them red handed?
Do I trust some and get fooled by phoniness,
Or do I trust nobody and live in loneliness?
Because I cant hold on / when Im stretched so thin
I make the right moves but Im lost within
I put on my daily façade but then
I just end up getting hurt again
By myself [myself]
I ask why, but in my mind
I find I cant rely on myself
I cant hold on
To what I want when Im stretched so thin
Its all too much to take in
I cant hold on
To anything watching everything spin
With thoughts of failure sinking in
If I
Turn my back Im defenseless
And to go blindly seems senseless
If I hide my pride and let it all go on / then theyll
Take from me till everything is gone
If I let them go Ill be outdone
But if I try to catch them Ill be outrun
If Im killed by the questions like a cancer
Then Ill be buried in the silence of the answer
[by myself]
How do you think / Ive lost so much
Im so afraid / Im out of touch
How do you expect / I will know what to do
When all I know / Is what you tell me to
Dont you know
I cant tell you how to make it go
No matter what I do, how hard I try
I cant seem to convince myself why
Im stuck on the outside
IN THE END:
It starts with one thing
I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time
All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It's so unreal
Didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on, but didn't even know
Wasted it all just to watch you go
I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when
I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
One thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme, to remind myself how
I tried so hard
In spite of the way you were mocking me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I'm surprised it got so (far)
Things aren't the way they were before
You wouldn't even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me (in the end)
You kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I
Chorus
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
And for all this
There's only one thing you should know (2x)
Chorus
However, I seem to be following a different tune right now, and you know what it is? "All you need is love", by the Beatles. It's true, all you really need is love. I could forget all my dreams of wealth and power if it meant having someone who would love me for the rest of my life.
Love and respect each other.
-Azrael
*referring to Sentows message*
That's all he needs in life
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Kloie had this to say about Optimus Prime:
"Love has reasons that reason knows nothing of."<3<3<3
That is a perfect quote!
