Love…
… of the lasting kind is uncommon and rare. It’s not difficult to find someone who tells you they love you. It’s very difficult to find someone who actually means it. My darling, I have never meant anything as much as “I love you”.
From “War and Peace” by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy
We
are
asleep
until
we
fall
in
Love!
Love…
…is easy to spot when real and true. There’s an invisible glow about a loving couple in good and bad times. Such love can’t be faked. Genuine and faithful hearted love shouts it name silently.
From “The Name of the Wind” by American writer Patrick Rothfuss
My parents
danced together,
her head
on his chest.
Both had
their eyes closed.
They seemed so
perfectly content.
The image of them
gently swaying
to the music
is how
I picture love
in my mind
even after
all these years.
Sketch by Fantasy Artist E. Baque
http://thefairygodfather.com/blog/2009/10/26/sketch-journal/couple-of-sketches-and-update/
Love…
…is magic. Someone asked me what the happiest day of my life was. I closed my eyes and felt a joyful tear run down my face as I thought back to the day when you first told me you loved me.
19th Century Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love you
not only for
what you are,
but for what
I am when
I am with you.
I love you
not only for
what you
have made
of yourself,
but for
what you
are making
of me.
Love…
…makes me want to be with you so badly now, but the certainty of what we share helps me be calm and patient. What we share is worth waiting for even if we are never together again until we get to Heaven.
From Happening’s song “See You in September” by Wayne/Edwards
…counting
the days
’til I’ll
be
with
you;
counting
the hours
and
the
minutes,
too…
Love…
…has broken the lock on my heart. You have slipped past all the barriers with hardly any effort and defeated my old heartaches. You have awakened me from sleep walking through life to find myself happy and in love.
American poet and author Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love
is
the
master
key
that
opens
the
gates
of
happiness.
Love…
…only exists in the present. What is behind is only a memory of what the contents of the heart were then. Love promised in the future at best is only a promise we hope to keep. “I love you” means “now”, at this instant, I am filled with feelings for you.
From the novel “Impulse” by American writer and poet Ellen Hopkins
Forever
has
no
meaning
when
you’re
living
in
the
moment.
Love…
…means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost. Love like energy can not be created or destroyed. Once it is, love always is.
From “Anna Karenina by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy
…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.
Love…
…is a wildly misunderstood, although highly desirable, malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
American author and social commentator Fran Lebowitz
Romantic
love
is
mental
illness.
But
it’s
a
pleasurable
one.
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
All 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…
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
I 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.
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