Aren’t you two just the cutest little lovebirds?
“To love and be loved, is to feel the Sun from both sides.” -David Viscott (David Steven Viscott (1938 - 1996))
“You don’t have to be perfect to be worth loving.” -Harold S. Kushner (Harold Samuel Kushner (born 1935))
Book of Love
If I could read you like a book,
And if I chanced to steal a look,
I wonder if I’d find that you
Were just as faithful, and as true
In chapter four, page sixty-seven
As you were on page eleven?
by Author Unknown
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” -Willa Sibert Cather (born Wilella Sibert Cather (1873 - 1947))
“Love is metaphysical gravity.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895 - 1983))
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” -Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991))
Melissa: Do you love me with all your heart?
Fred: Uh-huh.
Melissa: Do you think I am the most beautiful woman in the world?
Fred: Uh-huh.
Melissa: Am I the only one for you?
Fred: Uh-huh.
Melissa: Oh, you say the most wonderful things!
“Love is a verb.” -Clare Boothe Luce (1903 - 1987)
“What we love, we shall grow to resemble.” -Bernard of Clairvaux (C.E. 1090 - C.E. 1153)
“The heart that loves is always young.” -Author Unknown
“Love is the reward of love.” -Johann Friedrich von Schiller (Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805))
“Love is space and time measured by the heart.” -Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
“Love is never without some thorns.” -Author Unknown
“No one is perfect until you fall in love with them.” -Author Unknown
Perfect Love
They walked in the lane together,
The sky was covered with stars;
They reached the gate in silence,
He lifted down the bars.
She neither smiled nor thanked him,
Because she knew not how;
For he was a farmer’s son,
And she, a Jersey cow.
by Author Unknown
“Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that the person will love you back. Do not expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts but if it does not, be content it grew in yours.” -Author Unknown
“To be loved, be lovable.” [translation to English]
“Ut ameris, amabilis esto.” [original Latin]
-Publius Ovidius Naso (also known simply as Ovid (43 B.C.E. - C.E. 17)): “Ars Amatoria” (English: “The Art of Love”), Book II, line 107
“I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.” -Edmond Rostand (1868 - 1918)
“We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.” -Bernard of Clairvaux (C.E. 1090 - C.E. 1153)
“It’s love that makes the world go ’round.” -W. S. Gilbert (William Schwenck Gilbert (1836 - 1911))
“Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.” -Euripides (about 480 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.): “Orestes” (408 B.C.E.), line 298, as translated by William Arrowsmith
The Opposite of Two
What is the opposite of two?
A lonely me, a lonely you.
by Richard Wilbur (Richard Purdy Wilbur (born 1921)): “Opposites” (1973)
“All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.” -Julie Andrews
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” -Erich Segal
“The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.” -Maria V. Snyder (born 1973)
“What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.” -Pearl Bailey (Pearl Mae Bailey (1918 - 1990)): as quoted in “Weekly World News” (25 April 2005)
“We don’t love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.” -Jacques Maritain
“Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881))
“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” -Elizabeth Bowen (Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen (1899 - 1973))
“When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.” -Author Unknown
“To love and be loved, is to feel the Sun from both sides.” -David Viscott (David Steven Viscott (1938 - 1996))
“You don’t have to be perfect to be worth loving.” -Harold S. Kushner (Harold Samuel Kushner (born 1935))
Book of Love
If I could read you like a book,
And if I chanced to steal a look,
I wonder if I’d find that you
Were just as faithful, and as true
In chapter four, page sixty-seven
As you were on page eleven?
by Author Unknown
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” -Willa Sibert Cather (born Wilella Sibert Cather (1873 - 1947))
“Love is metaphysical gravity.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895 - 1983))
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” -Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991))
Melissa: Do you love me with all your heart?
Fred: Uh-huh.
Melissa: Do you think I am the most beautiful woman in the world?
Fred: Uh-huh.
Melissa: Am I the only one for you?
Fred: Uh-huh.
Melissa: Oh, you say the most wonderful things!
“Love is a verb.” -Clare Boothe Luce (1903 - 1987)
“What we love, we shall grow to resemble.” -Bernard of Clairvaux (C.E. 1090 - C.E. 1153)
“The heart that loves is always young.” -Author Unknown
“Love is the reward of love.” -Johann Friedrich von Schiller (Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805))
“Love is space and time measured by the heart.” -Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
“Love is never without some thorns.” -Author Unknown
“No one is perfect until you fall in love with them.” -Author Unknown
Perfect Love
They walked in the lane together,
The sky was covered with stars;
They reached the gate in silence,
He lifted down the bars.
She neither smiled nor thanked him,
Because she knew not how;
For he was a farmer’s son,
And she, a Jersey cow.
by Author Unknown
“Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that the person will love you back. Do not expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts but if it does not, be content it grew in yours.” -Author Unknown
“To be loved, be lovable.” [translation to English]
“Ut ameris, amabilis esto.” [original Latin]
-Publius Ovidius Naso (also known simply as Ovid (43 B.C.E. - C.E. 17)): “Ars Amatoria” (English: “The Art of Love”), Book II, line 107
“I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.” -Edmond Rostand (1868 - 1918)
“We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.” -Bernard of Clairvaux (C.E. 1090 - C.E. 1153)
“It’s love that makes the world go ’round.” -W. S. Gilbert (William Schwenck Gilbert (1836 - 1911))
“Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.” -Euripides (about 480 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.): “Orestes” (408 B.C.E.), line 298, as translated by William Arrowsmith
The Opposite of Two
What is the opposite of two?
A lonely me, a lonely you.
by Richard Wilbur (Richard Purdy Wilbur (born 1921)): “Opposites” (1973)
“All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.” -Julie Andrews
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” -Erich Segal
“The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.” -Maria V. Snyder (born 1973)
“What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.” -Pearl Bailey (Pearl Mae Bailey (1918 - 1990)): as quoted in “Weekly World News” (25 April 2005)
“We don’t love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.” -Jacques Maritain
“Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881))
“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” -Elizabeth Bowen (Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen (1899 - 1973))
“When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.” -Author Unknown
“Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; It does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” -Paul of Tarsus: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘First Corinthians,’ chapter 13, verses 4 through 8
“I think . . . if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
Together
Because we do
All things together
All things improve,
Even weather.
Our daily meat
And bread taste better,
Trees are greener,
Rain is wetter.
by Paul Engle (1908 - 1991)
People have made a silly pastime of holding a daisy and plucking off its petals while saying, “He loves me, he loves me not,” or “She loves me, she loves me not.” Supposedly, the last petal has the answer - but how would a flower know?
“Just because someone does not love you the way you want him or her to, does not mean they do not love you with everything they have got.” -Author Unknown
“The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.” -Victor Hugo (Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885))
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778))
“Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.” -Bette Davis (Ruth Elizabeth ‘Bette’ Davis (1908 - 1989)): “The Lonely Life” (1962), chapter 19
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” -Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849): “Annabel Lee”; type of work: poem
“He was happy and unhappy all at once. He was in love.” -Petra Mathers: “Victor and Christabel” (1993)
Knock, knock!
Who’s there?
Olive.
Olive, who?
Olive you!
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1595 - 1596), Act I, scene 1, line 140; words of fictional character Lysander
“Hearts are wild creatures. That’s why our ribs are cages.” -Author Unknown
Jared: How do you mend a broken heart?
Annie: With ticker tape.
“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” -Bess Myerson (1924 - 2014)
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” -Robert A. Heinlein (Robert Anson Heinlein (1907 - 1988)): “Stranger in a Strange Land”
“To love someone means to see him as God intended him.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881))
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Venus and Adonis” (1593), line 821; type of work: narrative poem
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861): “Sonnets from the Portuguese” (1850)
“Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love, because a heart can break, but a circle goes on forever.” -Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky (1911 - 1987))
Love wasn’t put in your heart to stay.
Love isn’t love until you give it away.
-Michael W. Smith
“What power has love but forgiveness?” -William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
Do you love me?
Or do you not?
You told me once,
But I forgot.
-Elena Helms
“I’m bananas for you - let’s never split!” -Author Unknown
“Love creates an ‘us’ without destroying the ‘me’.” -Leo Buscaglia (Felice Leonardo ‘Leo’ Buscaglia, also known as Leo F. Buscaglia (1924 - 1998))
“If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.” -Author Unknown
“I love you right up to the Moon - and back.” -Sam McBratney
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold.” -Zelda Fitzgerald (born Zelda Sayre (1900 - 1948))
I Love You!
I love you, I love you,
I love you, I do.
But don’t get excited -
I love monkeys, too!
by Author Unknown
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - 347 B.C.E.): “The Symposium”
“True love isn’t so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially - even, or perhaps especially, when you don’t feel like it.” -William R. Mattox, Junior
“Perfect love casts out fear.” -Uell Stanley Andersen (1917 - 1986)
“I love you more than all the stars in the sky.” -Author Unknown
“Who ever loved that lov'd* not at first sight?” -Christopher Marlowe (Christopher ‘Kit’ Marlowe (1564 - 1593)): “Hero and Leander”
*love’d: loved
“Love at first sight is a great time saver.” -Author Unknown
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” -Sam Keen (born 1931)
“To acquire love, fill yourself up with it until you become a magnet.” -Charles Haanel (1866 - 1949)
“We can only learn to love by loving.” -Iris Murdoch (Jean Iris ‘Iris’ Murdoch (1919 - 1999))
“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.” -Teresa of Calcutta (also known as Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (1910 - 1997)))
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.” -Sophocles (496 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)
“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!” -Victor Hugo (Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885))
“Love is by far the most important thing of all.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)
“The secret of health, happiness, and long life: If you simply learn how to accept and express love, you will live longer . . . be happier . . . grow healthier. For love is a powerful force.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))
“To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.” -Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845): “Lady Holland’s Memoir” (1855), ‘Of Friendship’
I loved you yesterday,
I love you still -
I always have,
I always will.
-Author Unknown
“Real love stories never have endings.” -Richard Bach (Richard David Bach (born 1936))
“Do all things with love.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” -Author Unknown
This is MFOL! . . . where LMLML! (Levity Makes Life More Livable!)
“I think . . . if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
Together
Because we do
All things together
All things improve,
Even weather.
Our daily meat
And bread taste better,
Trees are greener,
Rain is wetter.
by Paul Engle (1908 - 1991)
People have made a silly pastime of holding a daisy and plucking off its petals while saying, “He loves me, he loves me not,” or “She loves me, she loves me not.” Supposedly, the last petal has the answer - but how would a flower know?
“Just because someone does not love you the way you want him or her to, does not mean they do not love you with everything they have got.” -Author Unknown
“The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.” -Victor Hugo (Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885))
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778))
“Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.” -Bette Davis (Ruth Elizabeth ‘Bette’ Davis (1908 - 1989)): “The Lonely Life” (1962), chapter 19
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” -Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849): “Annabel Lee”; type of work: poem
“He was happy and unhappy all at once. He was in love.” -Petra Mathers: “Victor and Christabel” (1993)
Knock, knock!
Who’s there?
Olive.
Olive, who?
Olive you!
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1595 - 1596), Act I, scene 1, line 140; words of fictional character Lysander
“Hearts are wild creatures. That’s why our ribs are cages.” -Author Unknown
Jared: How do you mend a broken heart?
Annie: With ticker tape.
“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” -Bess Myerson (1924 - 2014)
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” -Robert A. Heinlein (Robert Anson Heinlein (1907 - 1988)): “Stranger in a Strange Land”
“To love someone means to see him as God intended him.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881))
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Venus and Adonis” (1593), line 821; type of work: narrative poem
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861): “Sonnets from the Portuguese” (1850)
“Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love, because a heart can break, but a circle goes on forever.” -Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky (1911 - 1987))
Love wasn’t put in your heart to stay.
Love isn’t love until you give it away.
-Michael W. Smith
“What power has love but forgiveness?” -William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
Do you love me?
Or do you not?
You told me once,
But I forgot.
-Elena Helms
“I’m bananas for you - let’s never split!” -Author Unknown
“Love creates an ‘us’ without destroying the ‘me’.” -Leo Buscaglia (Felice Leonardo ‘Leo’ Buscaglia, also known as Leo F. Buscaglia (1924 - 1998))
“If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.” -Author Unknown
“I love you right up to the Moon - and back.” -Sam McBratney
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold.” -Zelda Fitzgerald (born Zelda Sayre (1900 - 1948))
I Love You!
I love you, I love you,
I love you, I do.
But don’t get excited -
I love monkeys, too!
by Author Unknown
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - 347 B.C.E.): “The Symposium”
“True love isn’t so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially - even, or perhaps especially, when you don’t feel like it.” -William R. Mattox, Junior
“Perfect love casts out fear.” -Uell Stanley Andersen (1917 - 1986)
“I love you more than all the stars in the sky.” -Author Unknown
“Who ever loved that lov'd* not at first sight?” -Christopher Marlowe (Christopher ‘Kit’ Marlowe (1564 - 1593)): “Hero and Leander”
*love’d: loved
“Love at first sight is a great time saver.” -Author Unknown
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” -Sam Keen (born 1931)
“To acquire love, fill yourself up with it until you become a magnet.” -Charles Haanel (1866 - 1949)
“We can only learn to love by loving.” -Iris Murdoch (Jean Iris ‘Iris’ Murdoch (1919 - 1999))
“Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.” -Teresa of Calcutta (also known as Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (1910 - 1997)))
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.” -Sophocles (496 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)
“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!” -Victor Hugo (Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885))
“Love is by far the most important thing of all.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)
“The secret of health, happiness, and long life: If you simply learn how to accept and express love, you will live longer . . . be happier . . . grow healthier. For love is a powerful force.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))
“To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.” -Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845): “Lady Holland’s Memoir” (1855), ‘Of Friendship’
I loved you yesterday,
I love you still -
I always have,
I always will.
-Author Unknown
“Real love stories never have endings.” -Richard Bach (Richard David Bach (born 1936))
“Do all things with love.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” -Author Unknown
This is MFOL! . . . where LMLML! (Levity Makes Life More Livable!)
