Laughter Nourishes the Soul

Love…
…including laughter nourishes the soul best. Humorous moments like making funny faces, being silly, telling jokes, giggling, you walking around with my big shoes on your tiny feet, me acting crazy like a monkey and such, strengthen the spirit.

Quote by a writer unknown/anonymous
IMG00141-20130210-0913The most
beautiful
thing is to
see a person
you love
smiling.
And even
more beautiful
is knowing
that you are
the reason
behind it.

When Romance Is New

Love…
…enhances the senses when romance is new. Colors appear brighter; touch is heightened; hearing is sensitive to the softest sigh; the smell of another becomes delicious and the taste of a kiss becomes bliss.

By Eppie Lederer better know as columnist Ann Landers
girl,love,orange,red,photography,love,blade-649d058e4d8602a14ecb0cb30f5677dd_hIf you have love
in your life
it can make up
for a great
many things
you lack.
If you don’t
have it,
no matter
what else
there is,
it’s not enough.

Never the Same

Love…
…is shapeless, yet filled with substance. It is high and wide, but has no specific form. Love is always love, yet the experience of it is never the same for any two people.

Saying found randomly on searchquotes.com
new love rules editThe best kind of relationships
begin unexpectedly;
when you get
the astonished feeling
and everything happens
so suddenly.
That’s why
you don’t look for love.
It comes to you
just at the right time;
the time you never thought
it would have.

Take the Power

Love…
…lives within each person like a seed needing only the coaxing of a kindred heart to sprout and grow. And like most things in nature love is highly resilient and can withstand great hardship and adversity.

American poet and greeting card maker Susan Polis Schutz
white on the beachThis life is yours.
Take the power
to choose what you
want to do
and do it well.
Take the power
to love what you
want in life
and love it honestly.
Take the power
To make your life
happy.

So Rare

Love…
…begins as “like” and if it grows steady and sure, love takes firm root. It’s possible to love and not like someone, but rarely is this a happy union. A couple who loves and likes one another are true friends and committed lovers.

French romantic composer, Hector Berlioz
happy-coupleIt is so rare…
to find
a complete person,
with a soul,
a heart
and an imagination;
so rare for characters
as ardent and restless
as ours to meet
and to be matched
together,
that I hardly know how
to tell you what happiness
it gives me to know you.

Filled With Promise

Love…
…brings a feeling like Spring after Winter. There is great hope of what is to come and everything appears more beautiful and filled with life. The arrival of love changes a person. They are never the same again.

From “The Reed of God” by Caryll Houselander
falling_in_Love_by_cacaicalizMost people know
the sheer wonder
that goes with
falling in love,
how not only does
everything in heaven
and earth become new,
but the lover himself
becomes new.
It is literally like
the sap rising
in the tree,
putting forth
new green
shoots of life.

Never Stop Looking

Love…
…oh, how wonderful to be in love. Everything shines a bit brighter and magic moves into what was common. One feels completely alive and life makes a little more sense. Love is the best reason we have for living.

From “The End of the World as We Know It…” by Robert Goolrick
True-lovers-hug-each-other-as-they-say-goodbye-403x300If you
don’t
receive
love from
the ones
who are
meant to
love you,
you will
never stop
looking for it.

When I Was With You

Love…
…truest and most rare, carves itself indelibly into memory. I attempted to forget you and for a time thought I succeeded. All I accomplished was to outrun love temporarily. Then when I wasn’t expecting it you caught up with me.

From “Clockwork Prince” by Cassandra Clare (Judith Rumelt)
woman eye contactI could not tell you
if I loved you
the first moment
I saw you, or if it was
the second or third
or fourth.
But I remember
the first moment
I looked at you
walking toward me
and realized
that somehow
the rest of the world
seemed to vanish
when I was with you.

Never Dies

Love…
…continues immemorial. Like a light shined into the heavens love goes on and on, a continuum extended far beyond ability to comprehend or know. Love never dies.

British author of 17th century literature, Aphra Behn
shooting-star editAs love
is the most noble
and divine passion
of the soul,
so is it that to which
we may justly attribute
all the real
satisfactions of life,
and without it,
man is unfinished,
and unhappy.

As Food Is To the Body

Love…
…can paint full color over monochrome and drown self-doubt with belief. It can replace frail vulnerability with strength and restless thought with clarity of purpose. Love is the re-shaper of lost hope and restorer of faded faith. As food is to the body, love is to the soul.

“He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by William Butler Yeats
Notebook and Paper HeartHad I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I,
being poor,
have only dreams;
I have spread my dreams
under your feet;
Tread softly
because you tread
on my dreams.