Richard Bandler

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

Richard Bandler.

Alexis Delp.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame,
and the tamest spirit wild.

Alexis Delp.

Amy Carmichael.

You can give without loving,
but you cannot love without giving.

Amy Carmichael.

Louis Aragon.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude.
It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Louis Aragon.

~ Kent Nerburn ~

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

~ Kent Nerburn ~

Pablo Neruda.

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 knew 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.

Jerry Grant Blakeney

Life is never perfect, and love is never what you want it to be. I don’t know where we will end up, but I do know that we share a love. As we enter this new phase in our relationship, I feel a chance to begin again. Everyone knows how pearls are made, sand in an oysters mouth… Well our love has encountered and will continue to encounter “sand” and other trouble… But as we work the best we can, we can make our own pearls. Someday when we are old and grey, we both will stand hand in hand on a beach of pearls and watch the waves come in, and know that our love has conquered all that has attempted to shatter it, and together we will be victorious.

~Jerry Grant Blakeney

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love’s sake only. Do not say
“I love her for her smile —her look —her way
Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day” -
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee,—and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity’s wiping my cheeks dry,—
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love’s sake, that evermore
Thou may’st love on, through love’s eternity.

~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Psychic Debra ext. 9596

“Our lives are short, so if we can meet someone who touches our heart and soul at all, an age difference can melt away in the face of love.”

Psychic Debra ext. 9596

Meister Eckhart

What keeps us alive, what allows us to endure?
I think it is the hope of loving,
or being loved.

- Meister Eckhart

~ St. John of the Cross

“In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.”

~ St. John of the Cross

Edgar Allan Poe

“Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight, half of anxiety.”

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Alain de Botton

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

~Alain de Botton

~Rainer Maria Rilke~

For one human being to love another
that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks;
the ultimate, the last test and proof;
the work for which all other work is but preparation.

~Rainer Maria Rilke~

~ Matthew Henry

“Eve was not taken out of Adam’s head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.”

~ Matthew Henry

~ Mark Twain

“After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”

~ Mark Twain

~ John Keble

“Abide with me from morn to eve,
For without Thee I cannot live:
Abide with me when night is nigh.
For without Thee I dare not die.”

~ John Keble

Colin Raye

I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we’re really not that different, me and you.

~Colin Raye

~William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

~William Shakespeare

~Rob Cella.

 relationship is like a rose,
How long it lasts, no one knows;
Love can erase an awful past,
Love can be yours, you’ll see at last;
To feel that love, it makes you sigh,
To have it leave, you’d rather die;
You hope you’ve found that special rose,
‘Cause you love and care for the one you chose.

~Rob Cella.

Barbara De Angelis

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

~Barbara De Angelis

– Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish Journalist, Writer, Dramatist

If you have it [love], you don’t need to have anything else. If you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.”

 - Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish Journalist, Writer, Dramatist

Henry David Thoreau

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

~ Henry David Thoreau

 

This one is a personal favourite as well.

John Gray

We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways – the ways we react and behave when we love someone.

 

John Gray

 

This is one of my personal favourites.

Bertolt Brecht

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.

–Bertolt Brecht

- Mark Twain (1835-1910) [Samuel Clemens] American Author, Humorist

The irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.”

- Mark Twain (1835-1910) [Samuel Clemens] American Author, Humorist

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

William Shakespeare

My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, both are infinite.

~William Shakespeare

Zora Neale Hurston

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

Stephen King

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

~ Stephen King

The Apostle John

In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

–The Apostle John

Chip Brogden

All you who are called and gifted, hear me. Love is the missing ingredient. Follow after love and the calling, the gifting, and the revelation will find its deepest and fullest expression.

–Chip Brogden

Richard Bach

Can miles truly separate you from friends…. If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?

~Richard Bach

Jimi Hollemans

A Friend’s Love says:
” If you ever need anything,
I’ll be there.”

True Love says:
” You’ll never need anything;
I’ll be there.”

- Jimi Hollemans -

1 John 4:18

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear:
because fear hath torment.
He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

~1 John 4:18~

Rosemonde Gerard

For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

~Rosemonde Gerard~

Harold Klemp

“When your heart is full of Love, what room is there for fear?”

- Harold Klemp

Fyodor Dostoyevski

Love all of God’s creation, the whole of it and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you have perceived it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day, and you will come at last to love the world with an all-embracing love.

–Fyodor Dostoyevski

Henry Van Dyke

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”

—Henry Van Dyke

~ Robert Burns (1759-1796)

A Red, Red Rose

I

O, my luve is like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June.
O, my luve is like the melodie,
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.

II

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I,
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.

III

Take a’the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun!
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’life shall run.

IV

And fare thee weel, my only luve,
And fare thee weel a while!
And I will come again, my luve,
Tho’ it were ten thousand mile!

 

~ Robert Burns (1759-1796) 

“One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII”- Pablo Neruda

I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as one loves certain obscure things,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom but carries
the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself,
and thanks to your love the tight aroma that arose
from the earth lives dimly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you directly without problems or pride:
I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love,
except in this form in which I am not nor are you,
so close that your hand upon my chest is mine,
so close that your eyes close with my dreams.

“One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII”
by Pablo Neruda

Neil Gaiman

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”

Neil Gaiman

Warrior of the Light: A Manual

   For the warrior, there is no such thing as impossible love. He does not let himself be intimidated by silence, indifference or rejection. He knows that behind the mask of ice that people wear there exists a heart of fire.
      That is why the warrior risks more than others. He seeks tirelessly for someone’s love – even if this means often hearing the word “no”, returning home defeated and feeling rejected in both body and soul.
      A warrior does not let himself become scared when he seeks what he needs. Without love he is nothing.

Warrior of the Light: A Manual

“Every Warror of Light has hurt someone he loved.   That is why he is a Warrior of Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is.”

Warrior of the Light: A Manual

Every Warrior of the Light has felt afraid of going into battle.
Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone.

Every Warrior of the Light has trodden a path that was not his.

Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons. Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light.

Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties.

Every Warrior of the Light has said ‘yes’ when he wanted to say ‘no.’

Every Warrior of the Light has hurt someone he loved.

That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is.

~Pearl S. Buck.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding
mothers, but it is love just the same, and
most mothers kiss and scold together.

~Pearl S. Buck.

~Abraham Lincoln

All that I am or ever hope to be,
I owe to my angel Mother…

~Abraham Lincoln. .

~Tenneva Jordan

 mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

 ~Tenneva Jordan

~Mildred B. Vermont

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.

~Mildred B. Vermont

William Goldsmith Brown

The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.

~William Goldsmith Brown

George Cooper

Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.

~George Cooper

~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

~Aristotle

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

~Aristotle

Thomas Moore

This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love’s true instinct, back to thee!

~Thomas Moore

Anne Taylor

Who fed me from her gentle breast
And hushed me in her arms to rest,
And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?
My Mother.

~Anne Taylor

~William Makepeace Thackeray

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

~William Makepeace Thackeray

Graycie Harmon

My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.

~Graycie Harmon

Otomo No Yakamochi

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

Otomo No Yakamochi

Margaret Mitchell

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Margaret Mitchell

Philip James Bailey

I cannot love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one great woe of life
To feel all feeling die.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

–Philip James Bailey

Helen Keller

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

–Helen Keller

John Donne

Only our love hath no decay;
This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday,
Running it never runs from us away,
But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

–John Donne

John Boyle O’Reilly

The red rose whispers of passion,And the white rose breathes of love;O, the red rose is a falcon,And the white rose is a dove.

~ John Boyle O’Reilly

Paul Simon, (Something So Right)

Some people never say the words “I love you”
It’s not their style to be so bold.
Some people never say those words “I love you”
But, like a child, they’re longing to be told…

–Paul Simon, (Something So Right)

Maulana Jalalu’ddin Rumi

The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.

~  Maulana Jalalu’ddin Rumi

Susan Polis Schutz

The most painful love there is, is the love left unshown
A love that cannot be expressed, affection left unknown
The love that withholds touching, afraid of what it would say
And the most painful thing about unexpressed love is… it never fades away

–Susan Polis Schutz

Joseph Addison

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure,
Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!
Endless torments dwell about thee:
Yet who would live, and live without thee!

–Joseph Addison

Mary Parrish (McCalls Magazine)

Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock. Across the barriers of time and the ultimate destiny, love persists, for the home of the beloved, absent or present, is always in the mind and heart. Absence does not diminish love.

–Mary Parrish (McCalls Magazine)

Gretchen Kemp

… See there’s this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It’s the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.

Gretchen Kemp

Robert Fulghum

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge —
That myth is more potent than history.
I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts —
That hope always triumphs over experience —
That laughter is the only cure for grief.
And I believe that love is stronger than death.

~ Robert Fulghum ~

Edgar Allan Poe

~~Edgar Allan Poe

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.~~

Marvin Jay M. Torres

The best thing about loving and being hurt is that you get to know what true love really is. For as gold is tested in fire, and so will love be perfected in pain.

~Marvin Jay M. Torres

Francis David

We need not think alike to love alike.

~ Francis David

Felix Adler

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

~ Felix Adler

James D. Bryden

James D. Bryden:

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life’s hazards, save one — neglect.

Robert Burns

But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever.

–Robert Burns

- Judy Garland-

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”

- Judy Garland-

The Notebook

I am no one special. Just a common man with common thoughts. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul and for me that has always been enough.

~The Notebook

~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.

It is easier to perceive error than
to find truth, for the former lies
on the surface and is easily seen,
while the latter lies in the depth,
where few are willing to search
for it.

~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.

~ William George Jordan

Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live. Mistakes are always part of learning. The real dignity of life consists in cultivating a fine attitude towards our own mistakes and those of others. It is the fine tolerance of a fine soul. Man becomes great, not through never making mistakes, but by profiting by those he does make; by being satisfied with a single rendition of a mistake not encoring it into a continuous performance; by getting from it the honey of new, regenerating inspiration with no irritating sting of morbid regret; by building better to-day because of his poor yesterday; and by rising with renewed strength, finer purpose and freshened courage every time he falls.

~ William George Jordan

- John Lennon

A Dream that you dream alone is a dream, a dream that you dream together is a
REALITY..

- John Lennon

Pablo Neruda quotes

“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.”

Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda Sonnet XX

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.Write, for instance: “The night is full of stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance.”The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

On nights like this, I held her in my arms.
I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her.
How could I not have loved her large, still eyes?

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
To think I don’t have her. To feel that I’ve lost her.

To hear the immense night, more immense without her.
And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass.

What does it matter that my love couldn’t keep her.
The night is full of stars and she is not with me.

That’s all. Far away, someone sings. Far away.
My soul is lost without her.

As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her.
My heart searches for her and she is not with me.

The same night that whitens the same trees.
We, we who were, we are the same no longer.

I no longer love her, true, but how much I loved her.
My voice searched the wind to touch her ear.

Someone else’s. She will be someone else’s. As she once
belonged to my kisses.
Her voice, her light body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her.
Love is so short and oblivion so long.

Because on nights like this I held her in my arms,
my soul is lost without her.

Although this may be the last pain she causes me,
and this may be the last poem I write for her.

Pablo Neruda

- Dr. Joyce Brothers

The best proof of love is Trust.

- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Hugh Downs

To say “my fate is not tied to your fate” is like saying “your end of the boat is sinking”!

- Hugh Downs

John Lecarre

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

- John Lecarre

Rose Franken

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

Rose Franken

Judith Viorst.

“Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.”

–Judith Viorst.

Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

from the movie, “Indecent Proposal”

“The things that people in love do to each other they remember, and if they stay together it’s not because they forget, it’s because they forgive.”

from the movie, “Indecent Proposal”

Rudyard Kipling

If I was damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’mine.

~Rudyard Kipling

James Joyce 1882-1941, Irish Author

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another’s soul.

James Joyce 1882-1941, Irish Author

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~

Mother Teresa.

If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much
selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For
faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love
and faith go together, they complete each other.

~Mother Teresa.

Eustace Budgell

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Eustace Budgell

Dorothy Nevill

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the
right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

– Dorothy Nevill

William Dempster Hoard

“Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.”

William Dempster Hoard

Marion Parker

“Be kind – Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle – everybody’s lonesome.”

Marion Parker

Gilda Radner, 1946-1989

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity”.

 Gilda Radner, 1946-1989

Alfred D. Souza

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin–real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

Alfred D. Souza

Calvin- “You squeeze my tears out!”

Calvin.

“Why isn’t my life like a situation comedy? Why don’t I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures? Why aren’t my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don’t my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well being when I have problems? …I gotta get my life some writers.”

It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

“Pretty convenient how every time I build character, [Dad] saves a couple hundred dollars.”

“I’ve been visualizing the conceptualization process. That’s the hard part.”

“Are you crazy? This is a stupid, boring, time-wasting forced assignment! This isn’t fun!”

“Are you suggesting that this appliance didn’t aggravate me with malice aforethought?”

“Well, it just seemed wrong to cheat on an ethics test.”

“When you get something, it’s new and exciting. When you have something, you take it for granted and it’s boring.”

“I can’t help but wonder what kind of desperate straits would drive a man to invent this thing.”

“Do the words ‘complete pandemonium’ strike terror in your heart?”

“If warped values are the price of a vicarious thrill, so be it!”

“I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in and overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak.”

“I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.”

“I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I crank out crude imitations of what’s already popular! It takes no time or thought, and most people don’t care about the difference, anyway! And what good is originality if you can’t crank it out?”

“Now, a lifetime of experience has left me bitter and cynical.”

“People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”

“Did you know that’s one of the ten warning signs of hopeless dweebism?”

“Nobody asks me how things oughta be! I’ve got tons of ideas!”

“I say, when life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own!”

“These are interesting times. We don’t trust the government, we don’t trust the legal system, we don’t trust the media, and we don’t trust each other! We’ve undermined all authority, and with it, the basis for replacing it! It’s like a six-year-old’s dream come true!”

“If it was completely different, school would be great.”

“My time is valuable. I can’t go on thinking about one subject for minutes on end. I’m a busy man.” <!– –>

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

Why should I have to WORK for everything?! It’s like saying I don’t deserve it!

If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don’t get asked to do it again.

Childhood is short, maturity is forever.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

You know how people are. They only recognize greatness when some authority confirms it.

As far as I’m concerned, if something is so complicated that you can’t explain it in 10 seconds, then it’s probably not worth knowing anyway. <!– –>

True friends are hard to come by … I need more money.

There’s an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun it is. <!– –>

(During a test) A gas mask, a smoke grenade, and a helicopter, thats all I ask.

There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid? Well, mine are even worse!

I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak.

I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little pratice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little pratice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I’ll have a witty and blistering retort! You’ll be devastated THEN!

From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.

Nothing spoils fun like finding out it builds character

Aww mom, you act like I’m not even wearing a bungie cord!

It’s hard to conceal a water balloon

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Susie if you want to see your doll again, leave $100 in this envelope by the tree out front. Do not call the police you CANNOT trace us, you CANNOT find us. Sincerely, Calvin

I wanted to be a neo-deconstructivist but Mom wouldn’t let me

That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria! <!– –>

I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.

It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.

I understand my tests are popular reading in the teachers’ lounge.

Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.

Where do we keep all our chainsaws, Mom?

To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.

So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?

It’s only work if somebody makes you do it

That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

In my opinion, we don’t devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don’t help.

Its no use! Everybody gets good enemies except me.

What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ‘em?

As a math atheist, I should be excused from this.

This one’s tricky. You have to use imaginary numbers, like eleventeen …

I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life … Procrastinating and rationalizing.

I have a hammer! I can put things together! I can knock things apart! I can alter my environment at will and make an incredible din all the while! Ah, it’s great to be male!

I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information .

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

~Jean Paul Richter

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

~Jean Paul Richter

Christopher Paul Rubero

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.

~Christopher Paul Rubero

Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Kahlil Gibran

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Margaret Mitchell

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

~ Margaret Mitchell

from the movie “Someone Like You

“There is nothing sadder in this life than to watch someone you love walk away after they have left you. To watch the distance between your two bodies expand until there is nothing left but empty space… and silence.”

from the movie “Someone Like You

Otomo No Yakamoc

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

-Otomo No Yakamochi

“City of Angels”

“…I just don’t understand how God would let us meet, if there is no way for us to be together…”

from the movie “City of Angels”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To meet, to know, to love—and then to part,
Is the sad tale of many a heart.

~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thomas Campbell

Broken hearts die slowly.

~Thomas Campbell

George Lucas (1944 – ), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.

George Lucas (1944 – ), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Anonymous

“Hell’s afloat in lover’s tears.”

Anonymous

Anais Nin

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

-Anais Nin

Pearl Buck

There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be.

–Pearl Buck

Julia Roberts

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.

– Julia Roberts

Leo F. Buscaglia

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself – to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.

– Leo F. Buscaglia

~Kahlil Gibran.

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.

~Kahlil Gibran.

Goncourt

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

– Goncourt

Author: Vincent Van Gogh

I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Author: Vincent Van Gogh

Kahlil Gibran

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

– Kahlil Gibran

Richard Bach.

“The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.”

– Richard Bach.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson

Frederick William Thomas

‘Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not I’ve tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.

Author: Frederick William Thomas

Author: Frances Anne “Fanny” Kemble (Mrs. Butler)

What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

 Author: Frances Anne “Fanny” Kemble (Mrs. Butler)

The Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Paulo Coelho

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

Paulo Coelho

Lao Tzu

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

From Movie ”A Walk To Remember”

“Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins but delights in the truth and to hope and to endure whatever comes. There are three things that last faith, hope and love, and love is the greatest of these.”

~From Movie ”A Walk To Remember

Chris Moore

Love… What is love? Love is to love someone
for who they are, who they were, and who they will be.

~ Chris Moore ~

Mazie Hammond

Love, true love, is that which can give the most
without asking or demanding anything in return.

~ Mazie Hammond ~

Franklin P. Jones

Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones

Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Sir James M. Barrie

If you have it [Love], you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.

Sir James M. Barrie

Billy Crystal, from the movie “When Harry Met Sally”

“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with a person, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”

Billy Crystal, from the movie “When Harry Met Sally”

Rose Franken

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

Rose Franken

Judith Viorst.

“Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.”

–Judith Viorst.

-Margaret Mitchell

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.

-Margaret Mitchell

Robert Browning

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.

–Robert Browning

John Lecarre

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

- John Lecarre

D. H. Lawrence

One must learn to love and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it… and the journey is always towards the other soul…

~ D. H. Lawrence

Oprah Winfrey

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

“Did my heart love ’til now? Foreswear its sight–for I never saw true beauty ’til this night.”

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare, from Henry VI Act I Scene I

“I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.”

Shakespeare, from Henry VI Act I Scene I

“Indecent Proposal”

“The things that people in love do to each other they remember, and if they stay together it’s not because they forget, it’s because they forgive.”

from the movie, “Indecent Proposal”

A Walk to Remember

“Love is like the wind.. You can’t see it, but you can feel it.”

from the movie “A Walk to Remember”

-Oriah Mountain Dreamer

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

-Oriah Mountain Dreamer

“Runaway Bride”

“I guarantee there’ll be tough times; I guarantee that at some point, one, or both of us is gonna wanna get out of this thing; But I also guarantee, that if I don’t ask you to be mine, I’ll regret it for the rest of my life… because I know in my heart, that you’re the only one for me.”

from the movie “Runaway Bride”

The Wedding Date

“I would rather fight with you than make love to anyone else.”

from the movie The Wedding Date

Martial

“You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.”

Martial

Roy Lessin

“How blessed I am that I can walk beside you, lean upon you, and live within the warmth of your love.”

 -Roy Lessin

Robert Southey

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the love of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.”

Robert Southey

William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (III, ii, 22)

“Not that I lov’d Caesar less, but that I lov’d Rome more.”

William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (III, ii, 22)

Mariah Carey

“Only once in a lifetime love rushes in, changing you with the tide.”

 Mariah Carey

When Love and Skill work together expect a masterpiece.

When Love and Skill work together expect a masterpiece.

Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

– Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

George Eliot

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined..

to strengthen each other..

to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

- George Eliot

Irish Proverb

“It is in the shelter of each other that people live.” 

Irish Proverb

“I waited a lifetime to say I love you…”

If in this lifetime, I wont get to have you,
I’ll make sure that if I meet you in my next life
I wont have to think twice on saying that “I waited a lifetime to say I love you…”

Nicholas Sparks in The Wedding

“But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”

 Nicholas Sparks in The Wedding

- Will Moss

Love is not blind – It sees more and not less,
but because it sees more it is willing to see less.

- Will Moss

“Fools Rush In”

“You will never know love unless you surrender to it.”

from the movie “Fools Rush In”

Rose Franken

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

Rose Franken

-11 minutes – Paulo Coelho

Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

-11 minutes – Paulo Coelho

Robert Sexton

“I never knew dawn could break With peace so deep and hope so wide, Till that first morning when I awoke, And you lay sleeping by my side.”

Robert Sexton

-Roy Lessin

“How blessed I am that I can walk beside you, lean upon you, and live within the warmth of your love.”

-Roy Lessin

Robert Southey

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the love of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.”

Robert Southey

Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

– Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

George Eliot

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined..to strengthen each other..to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

- George Eliot

Nicholas Sparks in The Wedding

“But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”

 Nicholas Sparks in The Wedding

William Shakespeare

Love is merely madness…

William Shakespeare

James J. Walker

Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May?

~James J. Walker

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh:

Him that I love, I wish to be free — even from me.

Alfred Adler

Alfred Adler:

We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a “getaway.” We cannot love and be limited.

Ralph Connor

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.

Ralph Connor

Robin St. John

What the heart gives away is never gone … It is kept in the hearts of others.

Robin St. John

Alexander Smith

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Alexander Smith

Gloria Gaither

Love is the seed of all hope.
It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.

Gloria Gaither

W. Somerset Maugham

The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish,
but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham

Maria Edgeworth

The human heart, at whatever age,
opens to the heart that opens in return.

Maria Edgeworth

~Kahlil Gibran

“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

~Marcus Aurelius

Accept the things
To which fate binds you and
Love the people with whom fate
Brings you together
But do so with all your heart.

~Marcus Aurelius

Peter De Vries

We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel. -

Peter De Vries

–Richard Bandler

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

–Ken Keyes

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.

–Ken Keyes

–Rev Ed Hird

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

–Ken Keyes

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

–Ken Keyes

–UB40

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

–Randolph Roy

I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band, “Be kind to one another.” This is the Golden Rule of marriage and the secret of making love last through the years.

–Randolph Roy

–H. Lawrence

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

–John Boorman

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

–Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

–Leigh Hunt

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

–Benjamin Disraeli

–Jean Paul F. Richter

Paradise is always where love dwells.

–Jean Paul F. Richter

Dr. Nathaniel Branden

Romantic-love relationships are made or broken by the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of communication. The essence of mutual self-disclosure is communication. And no element of communication is more important to romantic love than that of feelings and emotions.

–Dr. Nathaniel Branden

Love creates an “us” without destroying a “me.”

Love creates an “us” without destroying a “me.”

Some things are loved because they are valuable; others are valuable because they are loved.

Some things are loved because they are valuable; others are valuable because they are loved.

Henceforth there will be such a oneness between us

Henceforth there will be such a oneness between us—
that when one weeps the other will taste salt.

–Erma Bombeck

Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint –like a heartbeat. And pure love — why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.

–Erma Bombeck

–Dr. Nathaniel Branden

Romantic-love relationships are made or broken by the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of communication. The essence of mutual self-disclosure is communication. And no element of communication is more important to romantic love than that of feelings and emotions.

–Dr. Nathaniel Branden

–Todd Ruthman

It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting.

–Todd Ruthman

–Mandy Hampton

True love is knowing a person’s faults, and loving them even more for them.

–Mandy Hampton

–Sam Keen

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

–Sam Keen

–Leo Buscaglia

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

–Leo Buscaglia

Robert Schuman

When I was a young man,
I vowed never to marry until
I found the ideal woman.
Well, I found her.
But, alas, she was waiting
for the ideal man.

–Robert Schuman

–Sophocles

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; That word is love.

–Sophocles

Bertrand Russell

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

–Bertrand Russell

–Charlotte Joko Beck

What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process, they have grown old together. We can sense the enormous comfort, the shared quality of ease between these people. It is beautiful, and very rare. Without this quality of openness and vulnerability, partners don’t really know each other; they are one image living with another image.

–Charlotte Joko Beck

Joseph Addison

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves”

– Joseph Addison

Chicken Soup for the Soul

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

–Elizabeth Bowen

Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One’s relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

–Elizabeth Bowen

St. Augustine

Love is the beauty of the soul.

–St. Augustine

- Michelle Oliver-Rochdale

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

- Michelle Oliver-Rochdale –

–W.B. Yeats (The Countess Kathleen)

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)

–D. H. Lawrence

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness. What ails us is that our sense of beauty is so bruised and blunted, we miss all the best.

–D. H. Lawrence

Sri Ramakrishna

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

James J. Jones

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.

Jennifer Hautman

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

Be Mine

Please my angel of love, be the wings through which I am excluded from the untouched perils of this world.
Lead me onto the uncommonly serene pavement, where all hatred and reality is exiled.
Tell me you’re there when I need you, hold me in your arms when I’m with you, and with the gentle stroke of your wonderous fingers touch my lips.
Hold me until my fear subsides, and the darkness has drifted off.

- Sheelagh Lennon –

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 –

- Courtney Kuchta –

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 -

1 John 4:18.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

 

1 John 4:18.

Christian Nestell Bovee.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives it its sweetness;
it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Christian Nestell Bovee.

Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is love there is life

Mahatma Gandhi

Sex is a momentary itch, Love never lets you go.

Sex is a momentary itch, Love never lets you go.

~Peter Ustinov.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

~Peter Ustinov.

John Lennon

“It matters not Who you love, Where you love, Why you love, When you love, Or how you love, It matters only that you love.”

John Lennon

Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart

Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart

As you sincerely go for deeper levels of love, the results you’ll have in well-being and increased quality of life will motivate you, leading you to a wider dimensional awareness. The results are so rewarding you can easily develop a passion for self-management.

The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance.

The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance.

Schiller

Love is the reward of love.

~Schiller

Helen Adams Keller

Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the ‘Golden Age’, and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt.. that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love.

Author: Helen Adams Keller

It is this thing that we call love that we find the means to achieve greatness, both in ourselves and in our lives.

Love and relationships are truly one of the most paradoxical aspects of being human. For it is in love that we find the greatest of strengths and the deepest of sorrows. Love can seem to be so fleeting and unachievable yet it remains well within our reach if we only learn how to embrace it’s power. To experience true love, we must be willing to open ourselves up and sacrifice part of our heart and part of our soul. We must be willing to give of ourselves freely, and we must be willing to suffer. It is only when we expose our inner selves to the white hot flame of rejection, that love can burn so brightly as to join to souls, melding the two into one, creating a bond that joins forever. It is from this bond that we draw strength eternal and power ever lasting. It is in this thing that we call love that we find the means to achieve greatness, both in ourselves and in our lives.

Anthony Hopkins

Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore…only the life I have lived… The pain now is part of the happiness (then).

Author: Anthony Hopkins

Author: W. Somerset Maugham

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham

Blaise Pascal

We conceal it from ourselves in vain– we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Author: Blaise Pascal

Erica Jong

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

Author: Erica Jong

Author: Ovid

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

Author: Ovid

N Rome

He is out of my mind but forever in my heart.

Author: N Rome

Shannon Fancher

Stars lead me up to heaven, and I hope I’m there with you, for you are a star in my twinkling eyes.

Author: Shannon Fancher

Alexander Pope

Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Author: Alexander Pope

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, -I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Mahatma Gandhi

Hatred ever kills, love never dies such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every heart responds to tender love.

Every heart responds to tender love.

Robert Burns

Oh, my love’s like a red, red rose,That’s newly sprung in June;Oh, my love’s like the melodieThat’s sweetly played in tune.

Robert Burns

Margaret Anderson

“In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.”

Margaret Anderson

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.”

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Jareb Teague

Were the passionate visible, all we would go blind. ~

Jareb Teague

Love me in the Springtime, when all is green and new,

Love me in the Springtime, when all is green and new,
Love me in the Summer, when the sky is oh so blue,
Love me in the Autumn, when the leaves are turning brown,
Love me in the Winter, when the snow is falling down.

Love me when I’m happy, and even when I’m sad,
Love me when I’m good, or when I’m oh so bad,
Love me when I’m pretty, or if my face is plain,
Love me when I’m feeling good, or when I’m feeling pain.

Love me always darlin’, in the rain or shining sun,
Love me always darlin’, after all is said and done,
Love me always darlin’, until all our life is through,
Love me always darlin’, for I’ll be lovin’ you!

Fr. Jerome Cummings

“Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.”

 – Fr. Jerome Cummings

Michael Leunig

“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.” –

Michael Leunig

Erich Fromm

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Erich Fromm (1900-1980)
Psychoanalyst and philosopher

~ Gibran Kahlil Gibran ~

And think not you can
Direct the course of love,
For love,
If it finds you worthy,
Directs your course.

~ by Gibran Kahlil Gibran ~

True poets don’t write

True poets don’t write
Their thoughts with a pen…
They release the ink that flows
From within their heart.

Kim Anderson

You love simply because you cannot help it.

~ by Kim Anderson ~

Byron

She walks in beauty,
Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

~ by Byron ~

~ William Shakespeare ~

Love asks me no questions,
And gives me endless support…

~ by William Shakespeare ~

~ William S. Burroughs ~

Love is a haunting melody
That I have never mastered
And I fear I never will.

~ by William S. Burroughs ~

~ Hubert Humprey ~

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

~ by Hubert Humprey ~

I sought for Love

I sought for Love
But Love ran away from me.
I sought my Soul
But my Soul I couldn’t see.
Then I sought You,
And I found all three.

-Alain de Botton, On Love

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

-Alain de Botton, On Love

Margaret Storm Jameson

“The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is – a miracle and unrepeatable.”

– Margaret Storm Jameson

-John Donne, “The Bait”

“Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.”

-John Donne, “The Bait”

-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, A Love Song

Ah, then, upon my bedroom I do draw
The blind to hide the garden, where the moon
Enjoys the open blossoms as they straw
Their beauty for his taking, boon for boon.

And I do lift my aching arms to you,
And I do lift my anguished, avid breast,
And I do weep for very pain of you,
And fling myself at the doors of sleep, for rest.

-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, A Love Song

Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched … but are felt in the heart.

Helen Keller

- Ben Jonson

Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I’ll not look for wine.

- Ben Jonson

-Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

-Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII

-Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus), De Consolatione Philosophiae

Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself.

-Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus), De Consolatione Philosophiae

-Jim Bishop

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds — a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

-Jim Bishop

-Smiley Blanton

“Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.”

-Smiley Blanton

Francis Thompson (1859-1907), from “The Hound of Heaven”

I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;
I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears
I hid from Him, and under running laughter.

Source: Francis Thompson (1859-1907), from “The Hound of Heaven”

Haneef Khan

I walked a mile with sorrow and never a word said she;
oh, the things i learned from her when sorrow walked with me.

Haneef Khan

- Lisa Grude –

Love is more than a feeling;
it’s a state of mind.

- Lisa Grude -

Love is when you look into someone’s eyes, and see everything you need.

– Albert Einstein

There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.

– Albert Einstein

– Herbert Rappaport

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone
is taking the time to plant some.

– Herbert Rappaport

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but
in the mastery of his passions.

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

– Friedrich Nietzsche

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Anonymous

Do not let the desires of the flesh dictate to the conscience of the mind.

—–
Anonymous

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I am a woman above everything else.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis:

Tom Robbins: Still Life With Woodpecker

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins:
Still Life With Woodpecker

Allan K. Chalmers:

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers:

Robert Browning

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.

–Robert Browning

Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

Judith Viorst.

“Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.”

–Judith Viorst.

Carol Burnett

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Jesus

Anyone who has had such an experience of God, who has felt such a profound sense of connection with reality, knows that there is only one truly significant work to do in life, and that is love; to love nature, to love people, to love animals, to love creation itself, just because it is. To serve God’s creation with a warm and loving hand of generosity and compassion – that is the only meaningful existence.

Jesus Christ

Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

Buddha

Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm..,
even so,
until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out,
suffering springs up again and again. . .

- Buddha

“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.”

Marcus Aurelius

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aurelius

Rose Franken

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

Rose Franken

Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.

Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

John Stuart Mill

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

John Stuart Mill

Saul Bellow

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

Otomo No Yakamochi

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

Otomo No Yakamochi

-Margaret Mitchell

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

-Margaret Mitchell

~Thomas Otway

If we must part forever,
Give me but one kind word to think upon,
And please myself with, while my heart’s breaking.

~Thomas Otway

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Unknown

God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.

 ~ Unknown

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

-Sandy Cheney

I just hope to sleep
And never awaken
Nothing left in this world
Could replace what you have taken….

-Sandy Cheney

Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country, 1950

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

~Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country, 1950

Brendan Francis

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

~Brendan Francis

Tennessee Williams

“There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.”

-Tennessee Williams

Toto

As soon as forever is through, I’ll be over you.

~Toto

From the television show The Wonder Years

Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.

~From the television show The Wonder Years

Leo Buscaglia

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

 Leo Buscaglia

Sir James M. Barrie

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

 Sir James M. Barrie

Italian Proverb

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

Italian Proverb

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

James Anthony Froude

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

James Anthony Froude

Unknown

Dreaming is romancing in the wake of desires, and I dream you with a lust and a passion so strong that takes my breath away…

-Unknown

Stephen Vincent Benet

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 small uncaring ways.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Lynda Barry

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

 Lynda Barry

Lazarus Long, “Time Enough for Love”

Yield to Temptation… it may not pass your way again.

Lazarus Long, “Time Enough for Love”

Jean de la Bryère

For a human there are but three great events: to be born, to live and to die.
She doesn’t know she is born, he suffers of dying and she forgets to live.

Jean de la Bryère

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courtesy: “Someone like you”

There are very few things sadder in this life than watching someone walk away after they have left you. Watching the distance between your bodies expands until there is nothing left but empty space and silence.

Courtesy: “Someone like you”

“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.”

Kent Nerburn, LETTERS TO MY SON

“Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun. Care for those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices in life no more easily made.
And give. Give in any way you can, of whatever you possess. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared, and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.”

~Kent Nerburn, LETTERS TO MY SON

– (Act I, Scene I).

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind”.

 - (Act I, Scene I).
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Joan Crawford

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”

Joan Crawford

Will Moss

Love is not blind – It sees more and not less,
but because it sees more it is willing to see less.

- Will Moss -

- Lisa Lenner

Love is a BATTLE. Sometimes U win, sometimes U lose. But U got to know when there is nothing left to fight for….

- Lisa Lenner

Pam Brown

“Odd, how much it hurts when a friend moves away – and leaves behind only SILENCE.”

- Pam Brown

Linda Direzzi

Everything is alright in the END. If it is not alright, then it is not the END.

- Linda Direzzi

Albert Einstein

The best part of loving is not hoping that she/he loves you as much as u do, but in knowing that u love her/him more than u can.

- Albert Einstein

The HEART WANTS what it WANTS….
There is no logic to those things..

Until i TRULY LOVED…..i was ALONE….

All DESIRABLE things im life are either :
ILLEGAL
BANNED
FATTENING
EXPENSIVE
OR
MARRIED TO SOMEONE ELSE

A MAN IS A MOMENT BUT A WOMAN IS A LIFE……..

A lot of happiness get trampled under feet, Coz people have their eyes on the sky & they don’t know what lying at their feet.” ….

G. K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

G. K. Chesterton

Mother Teresa

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Why is it that when U love someone so much, U still do not get the right words to tell them

Pearl Buck

There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be.

–Pearl Buck

Oliver Pell

“Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality”

-Oliver Pell

The beauty of life does not depend on how happy YOU are, but on how happy OTHERS are. . . . .
‘BECAUSE of ‘YOU’

LOVE is just a word,
Until someone comes by and gives it a “PROPER MEANING”

LOVE is PHOTOGENIC….It needs DARKNESS to develop!!!!

Hold a friend’s hand through times of trial,
Let her find love through a hug & a smile,
But also know when it is time to let go -
For, each & every one of us must learn to GROW….

“The MOST BEAUTIFUL CLOTHES a WOMAN can wear are the ARMS of the MAN who LOVES her……
And
She LOOKS MOST BEAUTIFUL when she SMILES while THINKING of SOMEONE who CARES for her..”

A million words couldn’t bring you back I know because I’ve tried, Neither could a million tears I know because I’ve cried.

LIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MUCH SIMPLER – HAD I NOT MET “U”.,
EXCEPT, IT WOULDNT HAVE BEEN LIFE….

IMPRESSIONS ON SAND LAST FOR SOMETIME…..
WHY THE IMPRESSIONS, WHY NOT THE TIME????

Letting go is one way of saying I LOVE YOU..

Never did I ever realise how much U meant to me until TODAY….when i fear there would NEVER be a “WE” again….

You will find as u look back upon your life that the MOMENTS when you have TRULY LIVED are the MOMENTS when you have done things in the SPIRIT of LOVE….

Thomas Moore

Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity – everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.

Thomas Moore

Chinese Proverb

Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.

Chinese Proverb

Homer

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

Martin Luther

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Martin Luther

Judith Viorst

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 maybe you fall in again.

Judith Viorst

Robert Frost

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Robert Frost

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Honore de Balzac

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Honore de Balzac

Joseph Campbell

When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Joseph Campbell

Germaine Greer

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Germaine Greer

Aristotle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Rainer Maria Rilke

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.

Rainer Maria Rilke

William O. Douglas

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

William O. Douglas

Phoenix Flame

Marriage is love personified.

Phoenix Flame

Martin Luther

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Martin Luther

Joseph Campbell

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it’s an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Joseph Campbell

Millicent Carey McIntosh

Marriage is a partnership in which each inspire the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

Millicent Carey McIntosh

Franz Joseph von MunchBellinghausen

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two heart that beat as one.

Franz Joseph von MunchBellinghausen

Mark Twain – 25th Wedding Anniversary Quote

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Mark Twain – 25th Wedding Anniversary Quote

LIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MUCH SIMPLER – HAD I NOT MET “U”.,
EXCEPT, IT WOULDNT HAVE BEEN LIFE….

love is to accept one as imperfect. it is love when both of you look in the same direction together rather than look at each other !

Never did I ever realise how much U meant to me until TODAY….when i fear there would NEVER be a “WE” again….

LOVING U was a MISTAKE, a BLUNDER…..
I WOULD LIKE TO REPEAT..

LIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MUCH SIMPLER – HAD I NOT MET “U”.,
EXCEPT, IT WOULDNT HAVE BEEN LIFE….

Letting go is one way of saying I LOVE YOU..

Rabindranath Tagore

” I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times,
in life after life, in age after age forever.”

~Rabindranath Tagore~

Love is giving him the ability to break your heart, but trusting him enought that he wont..

A million words couldn’t bring you back I know because I’ve tried, Neither could a million tears I know because I’ve cried.

I have walked a thousand miles barefoot, but I can still not forget the first splinter that injured me….

“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”

When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.

I don’t need to be wanted, I want to be needed.

Destiny decides who you meet in life but its only your heart that can decide who gets to stay in your life.

We cannot beg someone to stay if they want to leave and be with someone else. We have to admit that love doesn’t give us the license to own a person. This is what love means…sacrifice.

Living without you takes a lot of getting used to; you’re a hard habit to break.

Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.

You know it’s love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.

Life has gone away leaving me living.

And in the end, its not how far you go in life, but how close you are to your roots that matters.

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Epicurus

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Epicurus

Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Oscar Wilde

A LIFE with LOVE will have some THORNS,
but a LIFE without LOVE will have NO ROSES.

Love is not about finding the right person, but creating the right relationship..
Its not about how much love u HAVE in the BEGINNING, but how much love u BUILD in the END..

You know it’s love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.

Living without you takes a lot of getting used to; you’re a hard habit to break

I love you and it doesnt matter if you love me back because i rather live for the chance than die from the truth.

Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.

Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

“Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned.”

“Once you have loved someone, you can do anything for them, except love them the same way again…”

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

The best kind of a friend is one with whom you sit on a bench, saying nothing & when u get up and go, u feel as if u had the best conversation of your life!

We always know that looking back on the tears would make us laugh, but we never know that looking back on the moments we laughed together would make us cry….

U learn to like someone when u find out what makes them laugh….but u can never truly love someone until u find out what makes them cry….

Love is not about finding the right person, but creating the right relationship..
Its not about how much love u HAVE in the BEGINNING, but how much love u BUILD in the END

Maya Angelou, African American poet,

Maya Angelou, African American poet,

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Mary Wollstonecraft, writer, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Mary Wollstonecraft, writer, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

“Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.”

Duran Duran

PASSION OR COINCIDENCE ONCE PROMPTED YOU TO SAY PRIDE WILL TEAR US BOTH APART. WELL NOW PRIDE’S GONE OUT THE WINDOWS, CROSS THE ROOF TOPS, RUN AWAY – LEFT ME IN THE VACUUM OF MY HEART.”

Duran Duran

Michelle St. Amand

Love is not a matter of counting the years… But making the years count.

~ by Michelle St. Amand ~

Love is like standing in wet cement, the longer you stay the harder to leave and u can never leave without leaving your marks behind.

When Harry Met Sally (Movie)

“When you realize you want to spend The rest of your life with somebody, You want the rest of your life To start as soon as possible.”

When Harry Met Sally (Movie)

“If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: “Because it was he; because it was me.”

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious

“Men forget but never forgive. Women forgive but never forget.”

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

” A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end it was never meant to be your
and
you just have to let go . . . “

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Barbara Bush

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

~Barbara Bush

Johann Schiller

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

~Johann Schiller

Ryunosuke Satoro

“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”

~ Ryunosuke Satoro

George Costanza

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death. What’s that, a bonus?!?! I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you go live in an old age home. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, then, when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You drink alcohol, you party, and you get ready for high school. You go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities. You become a little baby, you go back, spend your last 9 months floating with luxuries like central heating, spa, room service on tap, then you finish off as an orgasm! Amen.”

 - George Costanza

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That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.”

Main Characters

Calvin Named after 16th century theologian John Calvin, Calvin is an impulsive, imaginative, energetic, curious, intelligent, and often selfish six-year-old, whose last name the strip never gives. Despite his low grades, Calvin has a wide vocabulary range that rivals that of an adult as well as an emerging philosophical mind. “You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid?” he says. “Well, mine are even worse!” He commonly wears his distinctive striped shirt. Watterson has described Calvin thus: “Calvin is pretty easy to do because he is outgoing and rambunctious and there’s not much of a filter between his brain and his mouth.” “I guess he’s a little too intelligent for his age. The thing that I really enjoy about him is that he has no sense of restraint, he doesn’t have the experience yet to know the things that you shouldn’t do.” “The socialization that we all go through to become adults teaches you not to say certain things because you later suffer the consequences. Calvin doesn’t know that rule of thumb yet.” Calvinistic predestination as a philosophical position basically entails the idea that the human action affecting a person’s ultimate salvation or damnation is predestined. Calvin’s consistent gripe is that the troublesome acts he commits are outside of his control: he is simply a product of his environment, a victim of circumstances. He does frequently escape from his environment into elaborate fantasy worlds of his own creation; one of the strip’s recurring devices is the humorous juxtaposition of Calvin’s fantastic perception with the quotidian viewpoint of other characters. On many occasions, Calvin sees himself in one of his many alternate guises: as the superhero Stupendous Man, the astronaut and explorer Spaceman Spiff, the private eye Tracer Bullet, and many others.

… and Hobbes Hobbes is Calvin’s stuffed tiger who, from Calvin’s perspective, is as alive and real as anyone in the strip. He is named after 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who had what Watterson described as “a dim view of human nature.” Hobbes is much more rational and aware of consequences than Calvin, but seldom interferes with Calvin’s troublemaking beyond a few oblique warnings — after all, Calvin will be the one to get in trouble for it, not Hobbes. Hobbes also has the habit of regularly stalking and pouncing on Calvin, most often when Calvin returns home from school. From Calvin’s point of view, Hobbes is an anthropomorphic tiger, much larger than Calvin and full of his own attitudes and ideas. But when the perspective shifts to any other character, readers see merely a little stuffed tiger. This is, of course, an odd dichotomy, and Watterson explains it thus: When Hobbes is a stuffed toy in one panel and alive in the next, I’m juxtaposing the “grown-up” version of reality with Calvin’s version, and inviting the reader to decide which is truer. Although the first strips clearly show Calvin capturing Hobbes by means of a snare (with tuna fish as the bait), a later comic (1 August 1989) seems to imply that Hobbes is, in fact, older than Calvin, and has been around his whole life. Watterson eventually decided that it was not important to establish how Calvin and Hobbes had first met.

The Indispensable Calvin And Hobbes

Calvin, Hobbes, Susie … we all know about these major cast members … but there are also several items that contantly appear in every Calvin and Hobbes book. Find out about the ‘minor’ cast members on this page …

Television
Like any kid in today’s world, the Television rules Calvin’s world. So obsessed is Calvin with the TV that he stays to watch the advertisements. The TV has always been portrayed through the eyes of a parent – that is, nothing worthwhile is ever shown on the ‘idiot box’. That, of course, does not discourage Calvin from worshipping the television or even at times, offering ’sacrifices’.

Bed
Calvin has a long and deep relationship with his bed – not only is it a place where he sleeps, but he always lies on his bed after being sent to his room (which is frequent), and is continually petrified of the monsters lying underneath waiting for him.

It appears that Calvin seldom does anything peaceful (like sleeping) in his bed. Instead it is more a place to plot revenge, sulk, hide from monsters or a place to battle with Hobbes.

Food
Calvin has a hate hate relationship with his food. Not only does he detest the food that his mum prepares, but in his presence, the food takes on a life of its own – much to the distress of his mum and Susie.

Bath
There are some constants in Calvin’s life – one of them is his dislike of having a bath. Throughtout the entire series, there is an ongoing battle between Calvin and his mum for him to have a bath – leading to one strip where Calvin had a rather novel approach to bathing.

Mind you, once Calvin gets in a bath, his imagination runs riot again leading to some very funny strips.

Wagon
A magnificent piece of equipment! I’m thinking that it must have been built by Tonka Toys because there is no other way it could possibly survive the torment metted out by Calvin in his adventures in the woods – not to mention the occasional space journey to Mars.

Bicycle
Finally, there is Calvin’s bicycle. We all have childhood memories of seeing people riding with effortless grace yet when we tried, the bike turned into a savage and untamed beast which was determined to kill and maim us. Well Calvin experiences the same fear of learning to ride. The big difference between our experiences and Calvin’s is that our bikes don’t stalk us through the night!

Calvin And Hobbes:Weirdos From Another Planet

Calvin

Calvin is a mild mannered studious young lad. He concentrates on his studies and is top of his class. He always tries to be nice to those around him and do the best by them. His secret love is Susie Derkins whom he absolutely adores – unfortunately, his love is not reciprocated. His faithful companion is Hobbes.

Hobbes

Hobbes is a tiger. Caught at an early age and domesticated, he’s become an accepted part of the family. Hobbes is rather dumb and not altogether there – but regardless, Calvin still loves him dearly.

 Calvin’s Parents

Calvin’s mum, who is called Emma, is a senior executive at a large corporation. She is the ‘breadwinner’ of the family. Calvin’s dad used to work as a mechanic but gave up his job to help Calvin with his studies. In all, they are a very happy couple and enjoy doing activities together with Calvin on the weekends. Camping is a favourite pastime for them.

Susie Derkins

To put it simply, Susie is a brat. She takes great delight in thinking up nefarious schemes and inflicting these plans on some poor unsuspecting victim. Unfortunately, Calvin is often Susie’s victim but being madly in love, he still find himself drawn to the troublesome Susie.

Mrs Wormwood

An ageing teacher, she is one of the best in the school. It upsets her to see Susie pick on Calvin and does her best to protect him.

Moe

Moe is Calvin’s best friend at school and there is nothing that they would not do for each other. Often they like to stop in the corridor for a chat. They are the definition of friendship.

Calvin, Hobbes, Susie … we all know about these major cast members … but there are also several items that contantly appear in every Calvin and Hobbes book. The ‘minor’ cast members…

Television

Like any kid in today’s world, the Television rules Calvin’s world. So obsessed is Calvin with the TV that he stays to watch the advertisements. The TV has always been portrayed through the eyes of a parent – that is, nothing worthwhile is ever shown on the ‘idiot box’. That, of course, does not discourage Calvin from worshipping the television or even at times, offering ’sacrifices’.

Bed

Calvin has a long and deep relationship with his bed – not only is it a place where he sleeps, but he always lies on his bed after being sent to his room (which is frequent), and is continually petrified of the monsters lying underneath waiting for him.

It appears that Calvin seldom does anything peaceful (like sleeping) in his bed. Instead it is more a place to plot revenge, sulk, hide from monsters or a place to battle with Hobbes.

Food 
 Calvin has a hate hate relationship with his food. Not only does he detest the food that his mum prepares, but in his presence, the food takes on a life of its own – much to the distress of his mum and Susie.

Bath 
 There are some constants in Calvin’s life – one of them is his dislike of having a bath. Throughtout the entire series, there is an ongoing battle between Calvin and his mum for him to have a bath – leading to one strip where Calvin had a rather novel approach to bathing.

Mind you, once Calvin gets in a bath, his imagination runs riot again leading to some very funny strips.

Wagon

A magnificent piece of equipment! I’m thinking that it must have been built by Tonka Toys because there is no other way it could possibly survive the torment metted out by Calvin in his adventures in the woods – not to mention the occasional space journey to Mars.

Bicycle

Finally, there is Calvin’s bicycle. We all have childhood memories of seeing people riding with effortless grace yet when we tried, the bike turned into a savage and untamed beast which was determined to kill and maim us. Well Calvin experiences the same fear of learning to ride. The big difference between our experiences and Calvin’s is that our bikes don’t stalk us through the night!

“Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.”

Working women prefer plots and plans to pots and pans

 - Ambrose Bierce

“If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base.”

Dave Barry

“Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive”

~ Leslie McIntyre

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature”

-Petronius

“There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.”

Washington Irving

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”

Joseph Conrad

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes”;

They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes”

Clare Boothe Luce

 I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.

 ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, “Identity Crisis,” M*A*S*H

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

~Desmond Tutu

In time of test, family is best.

~Burmese Proverb

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.

~Lee Iacocca

“We should quietly hear both sides.”

 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Erich Fromm (1900-1980)
Psychoanalyst and philosopher

“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.”

 – Michael Leunig

“Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.”

 – Fr. Jerome Cummings

“Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.”

– Fr. Jerome Cummings

“Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.”

 – Harvey Mackay

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

~ by Hubert Humprey ~

Love is a haunting melody
That I have never mastered
And I fear I never will.

~ by William S. Burroughs ~

Love asks me no questions,
And gives me endless support…

~ by William Shakespeare ~

She walks in beauty,
Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

~ by Byron ~

I have learned not to worry about love;
But to honor its coming with all my heart.

~ by Alice Walker ~

And think not you can
Direct the course of love,
For love,
If it finds you worthy,
Directs your course.

~ by Gibran Kahlil Gibran ~

True poets don’t write
Their thoughts with a pen…
They release the ink that flows
From within their heart.

You love simply because you cannot help it.

~ by Kim Anderson ~

~ by The Holy Bible, New International Version Ephesians 5:25-33 ~

Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it .. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

~ by The Holy Bible, New International Version Ephesians 5:25-33 ~

I sought for Love
But Love ran away from me.
I sought my Soul
But my Soul I couldn’t see.
Then I sought You,
And I found all three.

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds — a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

-Jim Bishop

“Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.”

-Smiley Blanton

-Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus), De Consolatione Philosophiae

Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself.

-Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus), De Consolatione Philosophiae

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

-Napoleon Bonaparte

-Alain de Botton, On Love

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

-Alain de Botton, On Love

-Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

-Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII

-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, A Love Song

Ah, then, upon my bedroom I do draw
The blind to hide the garden, where the moon
Enjoys the open blossoms as they straw
Their beauty for his taking, boon for boon.

And I do lift my aching arms to you,
And I do lift my anguished, avid breast,
And I do weep for very pain of you,
And fling myself at the doors of sleep, for rest.

-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, A Love Song

“Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.”

-John Donne, “The Bait”

“If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it. Maintain the high ground when you’re under fire. No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back.”

 – Rubel Shelly

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”

 – Edith Lovejoy Pierce

I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I miss you when something is troubling me, because you are the one who understands me so well. I miss you when I laugh and cry because i know that you are the one that makes my laughter grow and my tears disappear. I miss you all the time, but I miss you most when i lay awake at night and think of all the wonderful times we spent with each other; For those were some of the best times of my life.