January 2, 2001
Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in
the honoring of differences, not simply in the
enjoyment of similarities....James Fredericks.
January 3, 2001
Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike
acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers
and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children
and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship
has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract.
So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely
entered into, freely given, and freely exercised....Stephen Ambrose.
January 4, 2001
The person who doesn't fit in with our notions of who is worthy
of our love -- the bag lady at the corner, the strange man who
rides through town on a three wheel bike all strung up with flags
-- is just the person who, by not fitting into our patterns,
insists that we expand not only our views but also our capacity
to love. Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your
love so that it touches not only those whom you can give it easily,
but also those who need it so much....Daphne Rose Kingma.
January 5, 2001
You must love yourself before you love another. By
accepting yourself and fully being what you are...your
simple presence can make others happy....Jane Roberts.
January 6, 2001
When you really want love you will find it waiting for you....Oscar Wilde.
January 7, 2001
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks
simultaneously the head, the heart, & the senses....Voltaire.
January 8, 2001
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste
time...it tells us to tell each other right
now that we love each other....Leo F. Buscaglia.
January 9, 2001
Let's try to remember that love means keeping in touch with each
other's thoughts and feelings...listening, not just to words,
but to the emotions behind them...seeing, not just the smiles and
frowns, but the hurts and pleasures that causes them....Unknown.
January 10, 2001
Love is not measured by how many times you touch each other
but by how many times you reach each other....Cathy Moraney.
January 12, 2001
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good
deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship,
and he who plants kindness gathers love....Saint Basil.
January 13, 2001
The knowledge of Christ's love for us should cause us to love Him
in such a way that it is demonstrated in our attitude, conduct,
and commitment to serve God. Spiritual maturity is marked by
spiritual knowledge being put into action....Edward Bedore.
January 14, 2001
When someone opens his/herself up to you, it is not so that you
know where to attack in the time of battle, but so that you know
how to protect him/her from the world with your love....Unknown.
January 15, 2001
Even if courage fails you, tell that special someone
that you love them in anyway possible....Unknown.
January 16, 2001
If you begin the day with love in your heart,
Peace in your nerves,
And truth in your mind,
You not only benefit by their presence
But also bring them to others,
To your family and friends, and to all those
Whose destiny draws across your path that day....Unknown.
January 17, 2001
Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves....Ovid.
January 18, 2001
Love dictates, but a kiss writes the secrets of the heart....Unknown.
January 19, 2001
True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart,
for eyes may be deceived....Antoine De Saint-Exupery.
January 20, 2001
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is
more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself,
and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as
anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection....Buddha.
January 21, 2001
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair.
We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because
we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs
all the time and build your wings on the way down....Ray Bradbury.
January 22, 2001
Love has the power to break all chains -- swim the deepest
seas -- endure the strongest pains. Love is the glow in the darkest
night leading you on until you have sight....Cristoto Larita.
January 23, 2001
Those who are afraid of love and where it might take you, don't
be. For letting someone into your life and letting them know you
that well is the greatest accomplishment ever....Nikole Flannery.
January 24, 2001
Love is the hammer that will break the hardest heart....Unknown.
January 25, 2001
Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody
wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it,
those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among
all, never...never forget it....Curtis Judalet.
January 26, 2001
If we don't tell them we love them, the ones we
fall in love with are usually gone before we had
the chance to lose them ourselves....Unknown.
January 27, 2001
Honesty is a principle. Service is a principle. Love is a
principle. Hard work is a principle. Respect, gratitude,
moderation, fairness, integrity, loyalty, and responsibility
are principles. There are dozens and dozens more. They are not
hard to identify. Just as a compass always points to true north,
your heart will recognize true principles....Sean Covey.
January 28, 2001
The greatest possession we have costs
nothing; it's known as love....Brian Jett.
January 29, 2001
Love is the strongest force the world possesses,
and yet it is the humblest imaginable....Mahatma Gandhi.
January 30, 2001
Angels do find us in our hour of need....Amy Huffman.
January 31, 2001
Love is the special feeling that brightens all our days,
and the secret of its meaning is found in simple ways.
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow
feeling warm inside because you're close in heart....Kay Knudsen.
February 1, 2001
If you create the space and the desire to have love in your heart as
your top priority, you'll start to see that you have the capacity to
make loving decisions, and to have loving reactions, and to become
nondefensive, and to become a better listener...and pretty soon a
little annoyance will come your way or someone will do something
wrong...and you'll just find yourself forgiving them. You'll find
yourself not wanting to be thrown off-center simply to follow some
negative train of thought that's going to bring you somewhere you
don't want to go. You'll find yourself able to stay in that feeling
of love -- and when you do, almost everything else magically takes care
of itself...love is the most important answer in life....Richard Carlson.
February 2, 2001
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights....Erich Segal.
February 6, 2001
Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride.
Caring is real faint -- like a heartbeat. And pure love -- why,
some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there....Erma Bombeck.
February 7, 2001
Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when
once caught, which he may have pursued with the most
intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in
pursuit; friendship in possession....Ralph Waldo Emerson.
February 8, 2001
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is
equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with
white hairs and is always young in the heart....Honore De Balzac.
February 9, 2001
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is
easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood
is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded
on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and
self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any
and all trials is the mark of a man!....Charles Alexander Eastman.
February 10, 2001
Love is not losing freedom, it is
sharing freedom with another....Unknown.
February 11, 2001
There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is
not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers gone?"
Since love is the most vital energy for good that is within our power
to utilize, it is puzzling why we so seldom do so. Love is just a
useless, abstract idea until we put it into action...unless we are
always actively living in love, we are not utilizing the greatest gift
we have been given and which we, in turn, have to offer....Leo Buscaglia.
February 12, 2001
True love begins when nothing is looked
for in return....Antoine De Saint-Exupery.
February 13, 2001
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and
not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life....Leo Buscaglia.
February 15, 2001
There is much to be known, and above all much to be loved, be it the
turn of the seasons or the shape of a river pebble. Indeed, the more we
find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts....Lloyd Alexander.
February 16, 2001
Love withers with predictability; its very essence is
surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane
is to take its passion and lose it forever....Leo Buscaglia.
February 17, 2001
Love is a thing, well, its kind of like quicksand:
The more you are in it, the deeper you sink.
And when it hits you, you've just got to fall....UB40.
February 18, 2001
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place
in ourselves for those who love us....Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
February 20, 2001
Romance has been elegantly defined as the
offspring of fiction and love....Benjamin Disraeli.
February 21, 2001
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed:
our love to others, and others' love to us....Thomas Trahern.
February 22, 2001
Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers,
never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love
there is life; hatred leads to destruction....Mahatma Gandhi.
February 23, 2001
Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention
and admiration, romantic love remembers what pleases a woman,
what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper:
you are the most special person in my life....Charles Stanley.
February 24, 2001
The number one way a man can succeed in fulfilling a woman's
primary love needs is through communication. By learning to listen
to a woman's feelings, a man can effectively shower a woman with caring,
understanding, respect, devotion, validation, and reassurance....John Gray.
February 25, 2001
Romantic-love relationships are made or broken by the effectiveness
or ineffectiveness of communication. The essence of mutual self-disclosure
is communication. And no element of communication is more important to
romantic love than that of feelings and emotions....Dr. Nathaniel Branden.
February 26, 2001
The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily
broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive
the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival....Leo Buscaglia.
February 27, 2001
The way it actually works is the reverse. You must
first be who you really are, then do what you need to do,
in order to have what you want....Margaret Young.
February 28, 2001
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the
gift of unconditional love and acceptance....Brian Tracy.
March 1, 2001
The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves
God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will
see God whether others see Him or not....Warren Wiersbe.
March 2, 2001
There are only four questions of value in life...
what is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is
worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer
to each is the same. Only love....Don Juan De Marco.
March 3, 2001
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity,
eternity can be the tick of a clock. Across the barriers of
time and the ultimate destiny, love persists, for the home
of the beloved, absent or present, is always in the mind
and heart. Absence does not diminish love....Mary Parrish.
March 4, 2001
In a great romance, each person plays a
part the other really likes....Elizabeth Ashley.
March 5, 2001
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the
divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is
measured by fullness, not by reception....Harold Lokes.
March 6, 2001
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long
after your gold and good health have vanished....Og Mandino.
March 7, 2001
Only love let's us see normal things in an
extraordinary way....Alejandro De Solminihac.
March 8, 2001
You know it's love when the tiny details about another
person, ones that are insignificant to most people,
seem fascinating and incredible to you....Unknown.
March 9, 2001
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really
love; the more they give, the more they possess....Rainer Maria Rilke.
March 10, 2001
Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit
love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward.
True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness,
freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being....Dan Barker.
March 11, 2001
The strongest evidence of love is sacrifice....Carolyn Fry.
March 12, 2001
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive?
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people
are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for,
being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is,
if you don't risk anything, you risk even more....Erica Jong.
March 13, 2001
I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself
or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but
to join; and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes when they
coincide...That is beauty. That is love....Peter McWilliams.
March 14, 2001
After two weeks of cataloguing all of his faults I made a command
decision: I threw the list away. He's not a balance sheet; he's Michael.
And loving him means loving all of him....My Best Friend's Wedding.
March 15, 2001
To love one who loves you, to admire one who
admires you, in a word, to be the idol of one's
idol, is exceeding the limit of human joy; it is
stealing fire from heaven....Delphine De Girardin.
March 16, 2001
Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the
art of sewing shreds together and of seeing beauty in
a multiplicity of patches....How to Make an American Quilt.
March 17, 2001
I love you. And not in a friendly way, although I think we're great
friends. And not in a misplaced affection, puppy-dog way, although I'm
sure that's what you'll call it. And it's not because you're unattainable.
I love you. Very simply, very truly. You're the epitome of every attribute
and quality I've ever looked for in another person....Chasing Amy.
March 18, 2001
When you give someone your heart, you're giving them your life;
when you give someone your soul, you're giving them 'forever'....Unknown.
March 19, 2001
Ultimately the bond of all companionship,
whether in marriage or in friendship,
is conversation....Oscar Wilde.
March 20, 2001
Wherever there is love, an Angel is flying by....Unknown.
March 21, 2001
You gotta laugh, it's the only way to true love...."Michael".
March 22, 2001
We were two and had but one heart
between us....Francois De Montcorbier Villon.
March 23, 2001
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another....Proverbs 17:17.
March 24, 2001
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can
display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other
can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude,
and amending the error....Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton.
March 25, 2001
You don't get to choose, you just fall in love. And you get this
person who is all wrong and all right at the same time. And you
know that you love them so much except sometimes they just drive
you completely insane and no one can explain it and the reason
its so confusing is because its love, but if love didn't have
any challenges, what would be the point?....Party of 5.
March 26, 2001
You're not perfect sport. And let me save you the suspense this
girl you met, she isn't perfect either. But the question is
whether or not you're perfect for each other....Good Will Hunting.
March 27, 2001
To love another person is to see the face of God....Victor Hugo.
March 28, 2001
We were two and had but one heart
between us....Francois De Montcorbier Villon.
March 29, 2001
By honest I don't mean that you only tell what's true.
But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear
all the information that is required for somebody else who
is intelligent to make up their mind....Richard P. Feynman.
March 30, 2001
Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody
wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it,
those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among
all, never... never forget it....Curtis Judalet.
March 31, 2001
Love has to spring spontaneously from within
And it is no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force.
Love and coercion can never go together;
But though love cannot be forced on anyone,
It can be awakened in him through love itself.
Love is essentially self communicative;
Those who do not have it catch it from those who have it.
True love is unconquerable and irresistible,
And it goes on gathering power and spreading itself,
Until eventually it transforms everyone whom it touches....Meher Baba.
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