July 20, 2000
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world....Leo Buscaglia.
July 21, 2000
A friend is one who knows who you are,
understands where you have been, accepts what
you have become, and still gently allows
you to grow....William Shakespeare.
July 22, 2000
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by
someone is something, but to be loved by the
one you love is everything....Unknown.
July 23, 2000
Love is the doorway through which the human soul
passes from selfishness to service....Unknown.
July 24, 2000
Love is that condition in which the happiness of
another person is essential to your own....Robert A. Heinlein.
July 25, 2000
When you are in love, life should not be measured by the
moments of breath, but by the breath-taking moments....Unknown.
July 26, 2000
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love,
but love never subsides into friendship....Lord Byron.
July 27, 2000
The greatest challenge in being a friend is not listening
when words are spoken but hearing and feeling even
though there is nothing but silence....Unknown.
July 28, 2000
A friend will break your heart, a friend will mend it,
a friend will provide you with every feeling in the world,
good and bad. A friend is emotion incarnate....Unknown.
July 29, 2000
Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases
great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet
stirs up the fire....Francois Duc De La Rouchefoucauld.
July 30, 2000
Love is a disease which fills you with a desire
to be desired....Henri, Comte De Toulouse-Lautrec.
July 31, 2000
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer....Ed Cunningham.
August 1, 2000
Love is what is left in a relationship after
all the selfishness is taken out....Nick Richardson.
August 2, 2000
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.
You can love completely without complete understanding....Norman Maclean.
August 3, 2000
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it....Nathaniel Hawthorne.
August 4, 2000
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner
have you hate me for telling you the truth than
adore me for telling you lies....Pietro Aretino.
August 5, 2000
There is no disguise which can hide love
for long where it exists, or simulate it
where it does not....Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.
August 6, 2000
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe....Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.
August 7, 2000
As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will
be tomorrow where your thoughts take you....James Lane Allen.
August 8, 2000
To love and win is the best thing. To love
and lose, the next best....William M. Thackeray.
August 9, 2000
The way to love anything is to realize
that it might be lost....Gilbert Chesterton.
August 10, 2000
To love is to admire with the heart: to admire
is to love with the mind....Theophile Gautier.
August 11, 2000
Love does not die easily. It is a living thing.
It thrives in the face of all of life's hazards,
save one -- neglect....James D. Bryden.
August 12, 2000
Love is something eternal; the aspect may change,
but not the essence....Vincent Van Gogh.
August 13, 2000
We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain
them by the qualities we possess....Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard.
August 14, 2000
All love that has not friendship for its base,
is like a mansion built upon the sand....Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
August 15, 2000
Kindness in words creates confidence
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness
Kindness in giving creates love....Lao Tsu.
August 16, 2000
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the
soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more
detached its tenderness becomes....St. Theresa of Lisieux.
August 17, 2000
To conceal anything from those to whom I am
attached, is not in my nature. I can never close
my lips where I have opened my heart....Charles Dickens.
August 18, 2000
The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there
is more joy in the passion one feels than in that
which one inspires....Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.
August 19, 2000
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside
oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness
and integrity of one's own self....Erich Fromm.
August 20, 2000
Love is the immortal flow of energy
that nourishes, extends and preserves.
It's eternal goal is life....Smiley Blanton.
August 21, 2000
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or
to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have
found that when I silently commune with people they give up their
secrets also -- if you love them enough....George Washington Carver.
August 22, 2000
Love is the essence of God....Ralph Waldo Emerson.
August 23, 2000
Music is expression of harmony in sound.
Love is the expression of harmony in life....Stephen F. Gaskin.
August 24, 2000
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there
is no strategy, but it is very rare because most
people are strategists....Anita Brookner.
August 25, 2000
Being in love is a wonderful feeling but being loved
and appreciated in return can be the most wonderful
experience that can happen to your life....Unknown.
August 26, 2000
The art of love...is largely the
art of persistence....Albert Ellis.
August 27, 2000
The best portion of a good man's life is
his little, nameless, unremembered acts of
kindness and of love....William Wordsworth.
August 28, 2000
Suddenly, quietly, you realize that ~ from this moment
forth -- you will no longer pass through this world alone.
Like a new sun, this awareness rises within you, freeing
you from fear, opening your life. This is the beginning
of love and the end of all that came before....Unknown.
August 29, 2000
Love does not begin and end the way we seem
to think it does. Love is a battle, love is
a war; love is a growing up....James Baldwin.
August 30, 2000
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting
place for those who love us....Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
August 31, 2000
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as
to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins
them by what is deepest in themselves....Pierre Teilhard De Chardin.
September 1, 2000
Love is always bestowed as a gift -- freely,
willingly, and without expectation....we don't
love to be loved; we love to love....Leo Buscaglia.
September 2, 2000
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast,
as love can do with a twined thread....Robert Burton.
September 3, 2000
As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind a
wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds
together the love of them that kiss....St. Aelred.
September 4, 2000
Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices
you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love,
study those who sacrifice for others. Love -- the feeling --
is a fruit of love the verb....Stephen R. Covey.
September 5, 2000
Love is the greatest refreshment in life....Pablo Picasso.
September 6, 2000
Real love begins where nothing is
expected in return....Antoine De Saint-Exupéry.
September 7, 2000
Love is when each person is more concerned
for the other than for one's self....David Frost.
September 8, 2000
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your
love for each other exceeds your need for each other....Unknown.
September 9, 2000
Give all to love; obey thy heart....Ralph Waldo Emerson.
September 10, 2000
Love puts the fun in together,
the sad in apart,
the hope in tomorrow,
the joy in a heart....Unknown.
September 11, 2000
A loving heart is the truest wisdom....Charles Dickens.
September 12, 2000
Love is its own reward....Thomas Merton.
September 13, 2000
I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole
personality which nothing else can achieve....Ivan Sergeevich.
September 14, 2000
Love: to feel with one's whole self the
existence of another being....Simone Weil.
September 15, 2000
Between whom there is hearty truth
there is love....Henry David Thoreau.
September 16, 2000
Love endures when the lovers love many things
together and not merely each other.....Walter Lippmann.
September 17, 2000
Love in its essence is spiritual fire....Swedenborg.
September 18, 2000
Who, being loved, is poor?....Oscar Wilde.
September 19, 2000
He who is devoid of the power to forgive,
is devoid of the power to love....Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
September 20, 2000
Physical love is total intimacy. It is the sign
that the lovers have nothing to refuse each other,
that they belong wholly to each other....J. Leclercq.
September 21, 2000
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are
those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing,
continue to love a changed person....W. Somerset Maugham.
September 22, 2000
We forgive to the extent that we love....Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.
September 23, 2000
Where there is a today...there was probably
a yesterday...but possibly never a tomorrow...
make the most of wherever your heart desires
to be...tell her you love her....Unknown.
September 24, 2000
This was love at first sight, love everlasting:
a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected -- in so
far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness;
it took entire possession of him, and he understood,
with joyous amazement, that this was for life....Thomas Mann.
September 25, 2000
Holding the heart of another in the comforting hands
of prayer is a priceless act of love....Janet L. Weaver.
September 26, 2000
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the
species of woman in whose company he finds himself
electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose
company he may feel tenderly drowsy....George Jean Nathan.
September 27, 2000
Love and respect are the most important aspects of
parenting, and of all relationships....Jodie Foster.
September 28, 2000
If we judge of love by its usual
effects, it resembles hatred more than
friendship....Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.
September 29, 2000
In those whom I like, I can find no common
denominator; in those whom I love I can:
they all make me laugh....Wystan Hugh Auden.
September 30, 2000
You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such
thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain,
an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or
by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or
rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting
by its steady drain on the strength....Henry Adams.
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