Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

–Benjamin Disraeli

The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seems without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead…

–John Boorman

Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own lovelessness. And the loveless never find love, only the loving find love. And they never have to seek for it.

–H. Lawrence

Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It’s a matter of what’s happening in your heart.

–Ken Keyes

Inside the heart of each and every one of us there is a longing to be understood by someone who really cares. When a person is understood, he or she can put up with almost anything in the world.

–Rev Ed Hird

Do you want to know the easiest way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

–Richard Bandler

Love is a thing, well, its kind of like quicksand:
The more you are in it, the deeper you sink.
And when it hits you, you’ve just got to fall.

–UB40

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again.

–Judith Viorst

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

- Rupert Brooke

A hug is two hearts wrapped in arms

All is lost. Memories are distant. into the void you slowly disappear. The days have emptied.The dreams washed away..but tears still fall…they still do…FOR U…

Love may not be everything that constitutes the world, but it is something to be appreciated and felt in little things and tender ways…..Today and always.

“There is always drought of words where there is deluge of feelings”.

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better

- Pluto

Treasure the love that you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and silver have vanished!!

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

 ~Albert Camus

“You won’t realize the distance you’ve walked until you take a look around and realize how far you’ve been…”

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”

“When you have come to the edge of all light that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown. Know that one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly”

~ Patrick Overton

“Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words”.

“The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.”

~John Vance Cheney

If You Keep Waiting For Tommorrow You’ll Be Left With A Bunch Of Empty Yesterdays …

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

–Leigh Hunt

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

–Nathaniel Hawthorne

Relationships of all kinds are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold on to some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.

– Chicken Soup for the Soul

We love to the degree we’re happy. While we are unhappy and attending to our fears, we are not loving. The self is always crying out for acceptance. When we deny it that acceptance, things get hairy. Our attention gets sucked into a void inside ourselves, leaving nothing left to give to another.

–Jennifer Hautman

True happiness and a fullness of joy can be found only in the tender and intimate relationships of the family. However earnestly we may seek success and happiness outside the home through work, leisure activities, or large bank accounts, we will never be fully satisfied emotionally until we develop deep and loving relationships.

–James J. Jones Ph.D.

There are three kinds of love, – unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind. The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved but has an eye towards his own happiness also. It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe.

–Sri Ramakrishna

How many loved your moments of glad grace.
And loved your beauty with love false or true.
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

–W.B. Yeats (The Countess Kathleen)

You are my heart, my soul, my treasure,
My today, my tomorrow, my forever,
My everything!

- Michelle Oliver-Rochdale –

A Special World

A special world for you and me
A special bond one cannot see
It wraps us up in its cocoon
And holds us fiercely in its womb.

Its fingers spread like fine spun gold
Gently nestling us to the fold
Like silken thread it holds us fast
Bonds like this are meant to last.

And though at times a thread may break
A new one forms in its wake
To bind us closer and keep us strong
In a special world, where we belong.

- Sheelagh Lennon –

If I could have just one wish,
I would wish to wake up everyday
to the sound of your breath on my neck,
the warmth of your lips on my cheek,
the touch of your fingers on my skin,
and the feel of your heart beating with mine…
Knowing that I could never find that feeling
with anyone other than you.

 

- Courtney Kuchta -

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

~Kahlil Gibran

“Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.”

~Beverly Nichols (“The Fool Hath Said”)

“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”

~Kahlil Gibran

“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.”

~George Elliot

“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”

~W.T. Ellis

“My soul is in the sky.”

 

 ~William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”

~Voltaire

“Dreams are illustrations . . . from the book your soul is writing about you.”

~Marsha Norman

“Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body.”

~Irene Claremont de Castillejo

“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.”

 ~George Santayana