Only You

My love

Your love

Has opened up a world I’ve never known

All hope

Was found

A place I never dreamed I would go

Feels like only yesterday I had locked my heart away

Safe behind a castle of stone

Sure I’d always be alone

Only you know how

To hear me through the silence

You reach a part of me that no one else can see

Forever true there’s only me and only you

Only me and you

In your face I trust

With you beside me I am standing strong

One truth 

Two hearts

You took my life and made it beautiful

So you dared to let me shine

Even walk a step behind

Willingly you give yourself to me

Knowing who I was born to be

Only you know how

To hear me through the silence

You reach a part of me that no one else can see

Forever true there’s only me 

And only you

Only me and you

Only you know how

To hear me through the silence

You reach a part of me that no one else can see

Forever true there’s only me 

And only you

Only me and you

~Sinéad O'Connor, Love theme from Young Victoria

Paradoxical Commandments

The Paradoxical Commandments by Dr. Kent M. Keith.

• People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
• If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
• If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
• The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
• Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
• The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
• People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
• What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
• People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway.
• Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.

All the more reason to live with the Standard of Love.