The Entire Evening Sky

Love…
…can endure. Though years and decades; misery and happiness; accomplishment and failure; joy and heartbreak; in life, and I suspect after death. I have loved you best, most and above all.

Love Quote by a writer unknown/anonymous
Milky%20Way%203%20new-LEDITIf I could reach up
and hold a star
for every time
you’ve made
me smile,
the entire
evening sky
would be
in the palm
of my hand.

Without Reservation

Love…
…is spilling out of me. The more I learn to love myself, the greater the abundance of affection I have to give another. When heart, mind and soul overflow together love is ready to be given without reservation.

From “The Witch Of Portobello” by Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho
romantic-photos-kisses-part3-6_largeEDITReason
lost the
battle,
and
all I
could
do was
surrender
and
accept
I was in love.

What We Should Have Done

Love…
…. is always good, no matter how much we may end up hurt by it. From each heartbreak, large and small, come the lessons for the heart. Often we learn what we should have done from doing what we should not have done.

Blogger and spiritual seeker James Browning
5283_1249247960EDITAll the others were
to make me ready for you.
I had to learn
what did not make me happy.
I had to learn
how I made them unhappy.
One by one
they came and went,
teaching me
how to recognize you
when you come into my life.
I’m waiting…

Take the Chance

Love…
…says break down the walls, overcome your fear and take the chance. Speak your heart and tell the one you love how you feel. You will end up with no less than before and it’s possible you’ll find what you hoped for.

From “Sense and Sensibility” by English Novelist Jane Austin
GivingRedClothHeartI come here
with no
expectations,
only
to profess,
now that
I am at liberty
to do so,
that my heart
is
and
always
will be
yours.

A Calm Blue Sky

Love…
…is a rising sun whose warmth every heart desires. For some it becomes injured by storms of difference. Others will know ups and downs like those on a partly cloudy day. And for a blessed few, love rises like a single cloud and rests in calm blue sky regardless of what happens.

American romantic fiction writer Nicholas Sparks
450_notebook-the-notebook-1612115158EDITSo it’s not
gonna be easy.
It’s gonna
be really hard.
We’re gonna
have to work
at this every day,
but I want to do that
because I want you.
I want all of you,
forever,
you and me,
every day…

Courage and Understanding

Love…
…is most lasting when served with equal measures of courage and understanding; courage to face the difficulties that will try to tear the lovers apart; understanding so those times don’t succeed.

Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer Arrigo Boito
What-to-Talk-About-on-the-First-DateEDIT1When
I
saw
you
I fell
in
love.
And
you
smiled
because
you
knew.

A Blazing Fire

Love…
…heightens and brightens every sense, thought and feeling. It fills and thrills the heart, mind and body. Like gasoline it can make a small flame into a blazing fire.

From “The Magic Of Love” by Helen Steiner Rice
Let-us-ignite-the-fire-of-RevivalEDITLove is like magic
And it always will be.
For love still remains
Life’s sweet mystery!!
Love works in ways
That are wondrous and strange
And there’s nothing in life
That love cannot change!!
Love can transform
The most commonplace
Into beauty and splendor
And sweetness and grace.

Small Expressions of Affection

Love…
…is the practice of a quick kiss in parting, a hug each time back together or holding hands walking together. Many repeats of small expressions of affection keep love strong and thriving.

President of the nonprofit Institute of HeartMath Sara Paddison
ladies-firstYou’ll discover
that real love
is millions
of miles
past falling
in love
with anyone
or anything.
When you
make that one
effort to feel
compassion
instead
of blame
or self-blame,
the heart
opens again
and continues
opening.

Rough Edges Of A Routine Day

Love…
…in my heart is high like mountains; balanced like level plains; beautifully colorful as a spring meadow and smooth as a worn river stone. The uneven ground of thought, deserts of doubt and rough edges of a routine day are no match for love’s power.

American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright E.E. Cummings
fallinginloverocksTrust
your
heart
if
the
seas
catch
fire,
live
by
love
though
the
stars
walk
backward.

Eternally Filled With Gladness

Love…
…is never the real reason for sorrow and unhappiness. Love itself is always pure, without corruption and eternally filled with gladness. It is only human thought, feeling and action that can make love into anything else.

American author and motivation speaker Leo Buscaglia
1014219.largeLove is always
bestowed
as a gift;
freely,
willingly,
and without
expectation…
We don’t love
to be loved;
we love to love.