- 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 -