Pinaasa Lang Quotes

Choose Love

My mother once said to me there are two kinds of men you'll meet. The first will give you the life you want and the second will give you the love you desire. If you're one of the lucky few, you will find both in the one person. But if you ever find yourself having to choose between the two, then always choose love. ~ Lang Leav

Why do you write? he asked. So I can take my love for you and give it to the world, I reply. Because you won't take it from me. ~ Lang Leav

I loved you more than love allowed ~ Lang Leav

The Gift of Everything

You were the bearer of heartache,
of pain, like nothing I had ever known.

But look at what I have because of you.
Look at what I've built.

Only now can I look back
and recognize the gift
you have given me.

Only now can I look at the
all-consuming beauty of my life,
press my palm to yours and say,
Thank you for the gift of everything. ~ Lang Leav

Remember, your words are your power. Never forget your words ~ Lang Leav

A bird who hurt her wing,
now forgotten how to fly.
A song she used to sing,
but can't remember why.
A breath she caught and kept -
that left her in a sigh.
It hurts her so to love you,
but she won't say goodbye. ~ Lang Leav

Pandora's Box
Longing has a language
that is all her own.
The language of skin,
the language of flowers.
I am a body of longing,
a vessel of language.
For you, I am calamity
in a locked box
where the key is still turning.
For you, I am a mistress
in her ivory tower humming.
For you, I am a songbird
preening her feathers.
For you, for you,
I am a bed of roses,
blooming. ~ Lang Leav

Some days it felt like a burden, to smile for you. To keep the lines of worry from etching into your forehead. ~ Lang Leav

In cemeteries of memories, our love will lie in caskets. ~ Lang Leav

The truth is, everyone wants to believe they're in love but no one really is. So to all the girls out there who are stuck between two minds about some stupid crush, I have news for you. If you have to wonder, if you have to question what you feel, then deep down you actually don't give a shit. As for the rest of you who do get it, welcome to the club. If you know what it's like to want someone so much you would kill for them. If you know what it's like to feel someone so deep under your skin you would sacrifice everything to protect them - even if it screws up your own moral compass so you can't see right from wrong. If you're like me, then let me leave you with this: That's what love is. Don't let them tell you any different. Don't tell yourself otherwise. ~ Lang Leav

I'm really bad at describing my own life. ~ Helmut Lang

To the enormous majority of persons who risk themselves in literature, not even the smallest measure of success can fall. They had better take to some other profession as quickly as may be, they are only making a sure thing of disappointment, only crowding the narrow gates of fortune and fame. Yet there are others to whom success, though easily within their reach, does not seem a thing to be grasped at. Of two such, the pathetic story may be read, in the Memoir of A Scotch Probationer, Mr. Thomas Davidson, who died young, an unplaced Minister of the United Presbyterian Church, in 1869. He died young, unaccepted by the world, unheard of, uncomplaining, soon after writing his latest song on the first grey hairs of the lady whom he loved. And she, Miss Alison Dunlop, died also, a year ago, leaving a little work newly published, Anent Old Edinburgh, in which is briefly told the story of her life. There can hardly be a true tale more brave and honourable, for those two were eminently qualified to shine, with a clear and modest radiance, in letters. Both had a touch of poetry, Mr. Davidson left a few genuine poems, both had humour, knowledge, patience, industry, and literary conscientiousness. No success came to them, they did not even seek it, though it was easily within the reach of their powers. Yet none can call them failures, leaving, as they did, the fragrance of honourable and uncomplaining lives, and such brief records of these as to delight, and console and encourage us al ~ Andrew Lang

I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it. ~ Stephen Lang

I'm a stranger in my own life. ~ Lang Leav

My passion is for playing music and although everyone needs a break sometimes just to keep things interesting and fresh, there's no way I would ever give that up. ~ Jonny Lang

But when it is a question of the life of a king it is better to sacrifice the innocent than save the guilty ~ Andrew Lang

In time she will learn,
not to
miss them. ~ Lang Leav

And faith, which is but hope grown wise, and love And patience, which at last shall overcome." Lowell. ~ Jeanie Lang

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself. ~ K.d. Lang

I Loved Him

I loved how his eyes danced merrily,
and the gentle way he spoke;
the way he filled my aimless days,
with bitterness and hope.
I loved him as I fell to sleep,
and each morning as I woke;
I loved him with all my wayward heart -
until the day it broke. ~ Lang Leav

I want you to know how sorry I am for pushing you away when I had only meant to bring you closer. ~ Lang Leav

I think my favorite thing is the mystery of life - it makes you feel that much better about accomplishing something. ~ Jonny Lang

Until It's Gone

"Some people don't know what they have until it's gone."

"But what about the ones who do know? The ones who never took a damn thing for granted? Who tried their hardest to hold on, yet could only look on helplessly while they lost the thing they loved the most."

"Isn't it so much worse for them? ~ Lang Leav

There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure. ~ K.d. Lang

I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that. ~ Jonny Lang

Our love- a dead star
to the world it burns brightly-

But it died long ago. ~ Lang Leav

The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in the life of the country ... That this many young people could assemble so peaceably and with such good humor in a mile-square area ... speaks volumes about their dedication to the ideal of respect for the dignity of the individual ... In a nation beset with a crescendo of violence, this is a vibrantly hopeful sign. If violence is infectious, so, happily, is nonviolence. ~ Michael Lang

…just as determined belief yields no ground to the most irresistible powers and strategies, so too determined unbelief. ~ Harry Lang

I fear nothing when I am doing right,' said Jack.
'Then,' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one of those who slay giants. ~ Andrew Lang

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts ... for support rather than illumination. ~ Andrew Lang

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that. ~ Jonny Lang

It seemed at first that everybody was more concerned with my age. ~ Jonny Lang

Who you love and who loves you back determines so much in your life. ~ Lang Leav

Once upon a time there lived a King and Queen whose children had all died, first one and then another, until at last only one little daughter remained, and the Queen was at her wits' end to know where to find a really good nurse who would take care of her, and bring her up. A herald was sent who blew a trumpet at every street corner, and commanded all the best nurses to appear before the Queen, that she might choose one for the little Princess. So on the appointed day the whole palace was crowded with nurses, who came from the four corners of the world to offer themselves, until the Queen declared that if she was ever to see the half of them, they must be brought out to her, one by one, as she sat in a shady wood near the palace. ~ Andrew Lang

For the past has taught
to not be caught,
in what is not
worth pursuing - ~ Lang Leav

But how could I have stopped him from taking what was already his? ~ Lang Leav

I've been into weight training for many, many years and you add to that a good dose of cardio, don't overindulge, and you can do all right. ~ Stephen Lang

When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch. For ~ Lang Leav

I truly loved you, but now I'm walking away ~ Jonny Lang

I'm glad I didn't know certain things earlier, because then it wouldn't be any fun. ~ Jonny Lang

Aside from all that, we recall that antibodies to malaria and other diseases prevalent in Africa show up as HIV-positive on tests. ~ Serge Lang

I told her that we go to work to provide for our families, attend school functions that our children are involved in, take a few pieces of cake we just baked over to our neighbor next door, drive our children to school in the morning. "No! No!" She said. "How do you worship?" I said we make love to our spouses, smile and greet someone we pass on the street, help our children with their homework, hold open a door for someone behind us. "Worship! I'm asking about worship!" She exclaimed. I asked her exactly what she had in mind. "You know-Rituals!" She insisted. I answered her that we practice those also and that they are a very important part of Muslim worship. I was not trying to frustrate her, but I answered her in this way in order to emphasize Islam's comprehensive conception of worship. ~ Jeffrey Lang