Thursday, February 14, 2008

Happy Valentine's Day


Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and border and salute each other.
-Rainer Maria Rilke

I define love thus: the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
-M. Scott Peck

The affirmative of affirmatives is love.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The absolute value of love makes life worthwhile, and so makes man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.
-Arnold J. Toynbee

Love is the subtlest force in the world.
-Mahatma Gandhi

Intellect, in its effort to explain Love, got stuck in the mud like a donkey. Love alone could explain love and loving.
-Rumi

Love is the only gold.
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson

There is no remedy for love, but to love more.
-Henry David Thoreau

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love can be demanding, in fact, more demanding than law. It has its own imperatives - think of a mother, sitting by the bedside of a sick child through the night, impelled only by love. Nothing is too much trouble for love.
-Desmond Tutu

Love knows hidden paths.
-German Proverb

Bringing a child into the world is momentous. It means deciding forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
-Elizabeth Stone

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

People need love the most when they deserve it the least.
-Mary Crowley

Love and time are the only two things in this world that cannot be bought, only spent.
-Gary Jennings

Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.
-Rumi

Love is Nature's second sun.
-Geroge Chapman.

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