pending LOVE

As for my monthly ramble...I figure, in light of the decending holiday (holidays decend like natural desastaers) I will start this crazy thing off with a dash of LOVE. Love and the art of love? What can I possibly say? Nothing. Anything one says about love needs to be countered quickly so as not to be ridiculed by friends. Best to quote others...

If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm, and You are the music. P!nk
That’s what I’m talkin’ about!

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. John Lennon

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. Henri Frederic Amiel
And men….?

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. Rainer Maria Rilke

1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love Mother Teresa

Grow old along with me the best is yet to be. Robert Browning\

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. Dr. Seuss

[The lover says:] How beautiful you are, now that you love me Marlene Dietrich

I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Lord Alfred Tennyson

Funny, most people don’t know who said this. Last website I looked at said Shakespeare and another said Hemmingway.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as the are not. Friedrich Nietzsche

It's easy to halve the potato where there's love. Irish Proverb

Falling in love is so hard on the knees. Aerosmith

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. Francis Bacon

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence. Vincent Van Gogh
What? Speak into my other ear…

“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other”

Rilke

Conquer the devils with a little thing called love! Bob Marley

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily. D. H. Lawrence

When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach. French Proverb
Well, that explains a lot of things in France
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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home. Australian Aboriginal Proverb

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia. H. L. Mencken

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us Helen Keller

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
From the man who said that “Woman are cats and birds and at best, cows….”

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupry

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania. Dorothy Rothschild Parker

These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss. John Milton

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. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. Lisa Hoffman


For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke