Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
|
| Robert Frost,
The Road Not Taken |
|
|
Love
|
- "Some people just pass through your life... others, come in, leave footprints on your heart, and you are forever changed..."
- Unknown
- "If you truly love something, set it free... if it does not return to you, it was never yours to claim for your own..."
- Unknown
- "...that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything--that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it--and its choice to be there--are gone."
- Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane
- "Suddenly, I think I understand Sheridan a lot better."
"How so?"
"Well, dead or alive I'd claw my way out of hell and straight through 10 miles of solid rock to see that smile again."
- Bo and Mack, Babylon 5
- Love that asketh love again
Finds the barter naught but pain;
Love that giveth in full store
Aye receives as much and more.
Love exacting nothing back
Never knoweth any lack;
Love, compelling love to pay,
Sees him bankrupt every day.
- Love That Gives, Author Unknown
- "Love will die if held too tightly;
love will fly if held too lightly;
lightly, tightly, how do I know,
whether I'm holding or letting love go?"
- Unknown
- "If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving."
- Anonymous
- "Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Miss you, miss you, miss you;
Everything I do
Echoes with the laughter
And the voice of You.
You're on every corner
Every turn and twist,
Every old familiar spot
Whispers how you're missed.
Miss you, miss you, miss you!
Everywhere I go
There are poignant memories
Dancing in a row.
Silhouette and shadow
Of your form and face
Substance and reality
Everywhere displace.
Oh, I miss you, miss you!
God! I miss you, Girl!
There's a strange silence
'Mid the busy whirl
Just as tho' the ordinary
Daily things I do
Wait with me, expectant
For a word from You.
Miss you, miss you, miss you!
Nothing now seem true
Only that 'twas heaven
Just to be with You.
- Miss You, David Cory
- "Love comes unseen; we only see it go."
- Austin Dobson
- "A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
- Charles Dickens
- "Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough."
- Dinah Shore
- Lord, may there be no moment in her life
When she regrets that she became my wife,
And keep her dear eyes just a trifle blind
To my defects, and to my failings kind!
Help me to do the utmost that I can
To prove myself her measure of a man,
But, if I often fail as mortals may,
Grant that she never sees my feet of clay!
And let her make allowance--now and then--
That we are only grown-up boys, we men,
So, in loving all our children, she will see,
Sometimes, a remnant of the child in me!
Since years must bring to all their load of care,
Let us together every burden bear,
And when Death beckons one its path along,
May not the two of us be parted very long!
- Prayer of a Husband, Mazie V. Caruthers
- "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
- John 15:13 (RSV)
- "If I speak the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
"Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
"Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophesy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up my childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
- I Corinthians 13 (RSV)
|
|