David Alan Royster

Give the love that you pray for; someone’s been praying to have it.

I’m fine with the ups and downs in our story as long as the theme is love.

Everything in life I’ve worked hard for; what makes you think I’d do you different?

My heart must be bigger than my brain – blocking it out of all my decisions, so that I cannot think past the way I feel.

Don’t confuse feelings with facts and don’t ignore facts when they come as feelings.

Crack me open and get drunk on the contents of my spirit. Warning: consuming too much may have permanent effects.

I have you in one world, but I need you in two: the hands and the heart, just one won’t do.

Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession.

I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love.

And now my neck is open wide, begging for a fist around it. Already choking on my pride, so there’s no use crying about it.

Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved’s hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

It’s important to remember where you came from; it’s the easiest way to locate where you are.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

We need to make love great again because black lives do matter, because all lives do matter.

My father, soft as rainclouds, my mother, hard as hail, prepared me to take the world by storm.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

I won’t take anyone down if I crawl tonight. But I still let everyone down when I change in size.

I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.