Valentine's Day Quotes and a Verse...

Valentine's Day Quotes and a Verse

"We love because He first loved us."

- 1 John 4:19

"Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up

the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots."

- Hoosier Farmer

"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love,

thou art every day my Valentine!"

- Thomas Hood

"Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow

feeling warm inside because you're close in heart."

- Kay Knudsen

"Love is what you've been through with somebody."

- James Thurber

"A hundred hearts would be too few

To carry all my love for you."

- Author Unknown

"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was

important to them: there ought to be as many for love."

- Margaret Atwood

"Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly."

- Rose Franken

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

- Albert Einstein

"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be."

- Robert Browning

* dedicated to my parents, D. and B. who have been married for 53 years!
I love you two and am so proud of you!!  Happy Valentine's Day!!

Love Quotes...

Love Quotes

"I have learned not to worry about love,
but to honor its coming with all my heart."
- Alice Walker
Y

"What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that
another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?"
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Y

"Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends."
- Author Unknown
Y

"You come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly."
- Sam Keen
Y

"When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out."
- Elizabeth Bowen
Y

"For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile."
- David Myers
Y

"There is nothing more admirable than two people who see eye-to-eye
keeping house as man and wife, confounding their enemies,
and delighting their friends."
- Homer
Y

"Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends."
- Harville Hendrix
Y

“You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep
because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
- Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
Y

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
So I love you because I know no other way than this:
Where "I" does not exist nor "you",
So close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
So close that your eyes close as I fall asleep."
- Pablo Neruda, 'Love Sonnet XVII'
Y

- This is dedicated to my son, M. P., and his gal, C. C.,
who became engaged earlier this week. Congrats!!
- Happy Birthday, Grace!!

Happy Valentine's Day! Love Quotes...

Happy Valentine's Day to all of my dear friends out there! May you have a wonderful
day spent with your other half. If you haven't given him/her a card yet, how about
copying these quotes (and maybe some romantic jokes from last week) and tucking
them into their card?

If you don't have a dear to spend your day with, please pamper yourself today.
Sending out love and joy... Val =)


Quotes and a Verse for Valentine's Day


"Love is what binds us together in perfect harmony."
- Colossians 3:14
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"Love is an act of endless forgiveness,
a tender look which becomes a habit."
- Peter Ustinov
♥

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other,
but in looking together in the same direction."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
♥

"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and
persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and
unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created
for years or even generations."
- Nikki Giovanni
♥

"Thou art to me a delicious torment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
♥

“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding,
mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good
and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes
allowances for human weaknesses.”
- Ann Landers
♥

"You know it's love when all you want is that person to happy,
even if you're not part of their happiness."
- Jean Zheng
♥

"Love is my religion - I could die for it."
- John Keats
♥

"Nobody ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold."
- Zelda Fitzgerald
♥

"Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one."
- A Japanese Proverb
♥

"Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs!"
- Ovid
♥

"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania."
- Dorothy Parker