~ 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.