Monday, March 21, 2011

Constantly questioning... second guessing...

 feeling like the biggest mess in the world.



All for the sake of-      L     O     V     E


There are literally hundreds of thousands of quotes about Love.  We read them, become inspired by, overwrought, jaded, desperate, vengeful, amazed and so on....  We trust these writers, actors, scientists, philosophers, legends and proverbs to help us express our feelings on Love.  Yet, here I sit... still trying to figure out what the hell went wrong?  
What I can say, is this............ 


Love is- all encompassing, inspiring and above all completely 100% worth "IT".


Please just read and enjoy... perhaps be inspired, take a step back and think or just allow yourself to feel....



It is not that love is blind.  It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.  
~Robert Brault


"You don't get to choose. You just fall". Anonymous

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." Kahlil Gibran


Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.  

~Albert Einstein

 
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.  

~Eric Fromm

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace". 
Jimi Hendrix 

When love is not madness, it is not love. 
~Pedro Calderon de la Barca


Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. 

~Malagasy Proverb

"Love does not fail for you when you are rejected or betrayed or apparently not Loved. 
Love fails when you reject, betray, and do not Love".  
-Adi Da 


Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
~Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cinderella




Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. 
 ~Proverb



Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. 
~Eric Fromm







For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard



Love has no desire but to fulfill itself.
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To wake at dawn with the winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
-Kahlil Gibran



Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford-

 as smart as Henry Kissinger-
as noble as Ralph Nader-
 as funny as Woody Allen0
and as athletic as Jimmy Conners- 
Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen-
as smart as Jimmy Connors-
as funny as Ralph Nader-
as athletic as Henry Kissinger-
and nothing like Robert Redford- 
BUT you'll take him anyway 
~Judith Viorst, Redbook




Love is much like a wild rose, 
beautiful and calm, 
but willing to draw blood in its defense. 
~Mark Overby


Love is a symbol of eternity.  

It wipes out all sense of time, 
destroying all memory of a beginning 
and all fear of an end.  
-Unknown





Who, being loved, is poor?  
~Oscar Wilde


Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.  

~Peter Ustinov


To find someone who will love you for no reason, 
and to shower that person with reasons, 
that is the ultimate happiness.  
~Robert Brault 



Love is the condition
in which the happiness of another person
is essential to your own.  
~Robert Heinlein

We loved with a love that was more than love.  
~Edgar Allan Poe



Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.  

~Swedish Proverb



 
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream



The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.  

~Albert Ellis



The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, 
a dim twilight, 
and a fountain singing to it.  
You and you alone make me feel that I am alive.  
Other men it is said have seen angels, 
but I have seen thee and thou art enough. 
~George Moore


My debt to you, Beloved,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day.

~Jessie B. Rittenhouse


 



He felt now that he was not simply close to her, 
but that he did not know where he ended and she began.  
~Leo Tolstoy


Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. 
~Jean Anouilh



Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, 

a tight girdle, 
a higher tax bracket 
or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.  
~Judith Viorst, Redbook



You can give without loving, 

but you can never love without giving.  
~ Unknown



Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.  
~William Shakespeare



Love is being stupid together.  

~Paul Valery


Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. 
~Robert Frost   


A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.  
~Latin Proverb
 
Love is what you've been through with somebody.  

~James Thurber




The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.  
~Blaise Pascal   
 

    

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