Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. Thanks to Art & Mara Protas -Karen Sunde.
Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. -Nora Roberts.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.
A blind person, in reality, is the only person who can truly see. They know first hand what true love is, without the use of eyes, but with the heart. And that is the truest form of love, and they harness it.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.
Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met - or never parted, We had never been broken-hearted.
However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.
In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears.
From the lone shielding on the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas-- But still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides.
Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee,--are all with thee!
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand!
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. [Fr., La patrie est aux lieux ou l'ame est enchainee.]
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the American flag, and keep step to the music of the Union.
O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.
Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.
Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.
I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me.
Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth for he magnetizes to your home those who love every heart. (typo corrected).