For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.--Judy Garland

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 a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~Kahlil Gibran

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

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

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"

“When people show you who they're believe them.”
― Bianca Frazier

“When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.”
― Criss Jami

“It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.”
― Earl Nightingale


“Real intimacy is a sacred experience. A deep unspoken trust .”
― John O'Donohue


“I am the only force strong enough to stop me.”
― Naya S. Wood

Happy Valentines Day, Everyone!