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