A reader’s habit, perhaps, but I have been saving my favorite quotations in separate blank books almost as long as I have been keeping a diary. I extract them like tiny gems from nearly every book I read. A book with no quotes to offer is like a table with no food and indicates my lack of bonding with the writer or respect for their views.
Quotations also adorn the opening pages of each journal. Sometimes they relate to something happening in my life at the time.
In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are some of my “captured” quotes on Love. The rose, symbol of love, is here an Angel Face rose in my garden.
“To love, begin anywhere.” – David Grayson
“What I have loved well no one can ever take from me.” – David Grayson
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” – Kurt Vonnegut
“You fall in love with what’s missing in you.” – Wayne Dyer
“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” – Joseph Addison
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to our own.” – Robert Heinlein from Stranger in a Strange Land
“Love is the passionate and abiding desire on the part of two or more people to produce together conditions under which each can be and spontaneously express his real self, to produce together an intellectual soil and emotional climate in which each can flourish, far superior to what either could achieve alone.” – F. Alexander Magoun (sociologist)
“Love is an attitude between two people who have many things in common – tastes, interests, points of view – and that they share these things in common, in companionship, to the degree that they are stronger together than either one is alone.” – Murray Banks (psychiatrist)
“…Beware…love never dies of a natural death. It dies because we do not know how to replenish its source, it dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds, it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings, but never a natural death. Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love.” – Anais Nin
“Attention is the most basic form of love, through it we bless and are blessed.” – John Tarrant
“Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.” – Mother Teresa
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
“A bitter woman says ‘all men are the same.’ A wise woman decides to stop choosing the same kind of man.” – Annetta Powell (?)
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” – Zora Neale Hurston
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