"To love another person is to help them love God."

Søren Kierkegaard

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."

Anna Louise Strong

Your love is like religion
A cross in Mexico
And your kiss is like the innocence
Of a prayer nailed to a door

-Keith Urban, Raining on Sunday

"It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you."

Nigel Slater

Izzie: You kissed me.
Karev: Yes, I did.
Izzie: Should we?... I mean, there's a discussion that we could have... if you wanted to have one?
Karev: Izzie, I kissed you, with tongue, and I plan to do it again, and again - get used to it. End of discussion.

-Grey's Anatomy

"Lovers can live on kisses and cool water."

Old French saying

"A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know."

Mistinguett

I arise from dreams of thee
In the first sweet sleep of night,
When the winds are breathing low,
And the stars are shining bright.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."

Victor Hugo

We have a house in Jersey. We have two kids, Annie and Josh. Annie's not much of a violin player, but she tries real hard. She's a little precocious, but that's only because she says what's on her mind. And when she smiles... And Josh, he has your eyes. He doesn't say much, but we know he's smart. He's always got his eyes open, he's always watching us. Sometimes you can look at him and you just know he's learning something new. It's like witnessing a miracle.

The house is a mess but it's ours. After 122 more payments, it's going to be ours. And you, you're a non-profit lawyer. That's right, you're completely non-profit, but that doesn't seem to bother you. And we're in love. After 13 years of marriage we're still unbelievably in love. You won't even let me touch you until I've said it. I sing to you. Not all the time, but definitely on special occasions. We've dealt with our share of surprises and made a lot of sacrifices but we've stayed together. You see, you're a better person than I am. And it made me a better person to be around you.

I don't know, maybe it was just all a dream. Maybe I went to bed one lonely night in December and I imagined it all. But I swear, nothing has ever felt more real. And if you get on that plane right now, it'll disappear forever. I know we could both go on with our lives and we'd both be fine, but I've seen what we could be like together. And I choose us.

-Jack Campbell, The Family Man (2000)

"That's why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they'd call them something else."

-Sixteen Candles (1984)

You said the way my blue eyes shined
Put those Georgia stars to shame that night
I said, that's a lie

Taylor Swift - Tim McGraw

Sunny days seem to hurt the most
I feel you everywhere I go
I see your smile, I see your face
I hear you laughing in the rain

Still can't believe you're gone

God knows how I miss you
Just knowing no one could take your place
Sometimes I wonder

Who you'd be today

Would you see the world?
Would you chase your dreams?
Settle down with a family?

Some days the sky's so blue
I feel like I can talk to you
And I know it might sound crazy

Kenny Chesney, Who You'd Be Today

You Left Me

You left me, sweet, two legacies,—
A legacy of love
A Heavenly Father would content,
Had He the offer of;

You left me boundaries of pain
Capacious as the sea,
Between eternity and time,
Your consciousness and me.

Emily Dickinson

So that's how life works. We have experiences, we love, we feel, we hurt, we cry; we're passionate, overwhelmed, happy. We meet new people, we lose people. There are weddings and babies. We listen to music, we create art - poetry, paintings, songs, mosaics. We love each other. We love each other. That's the best we can do - in anything, loving is most important.

3/11/07

"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weight thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away."

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

"Love is a madness most discreet."

William Shakespeare

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