My actual Valentine's Day I spent hanging out with one of my best friends, watching movies. That was excellent! But the fifteenth I spent getting ready for, rehearsing for and performing a Valentine's concert with two other best friends and a whole group of people I really enjoy hanging out with. That's what my Valentine's Day was all about- my friends! My little twin even gave me a balloon! :)
"The Fountain of Love" by Jacques Clément Wagrez
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. -Baltasar Gracian
Sonnet CXVI - Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved."Prelude to a Kiss" by Josephine Wall Antigone, Ode 3 - Sophocles Love, unconquerable Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure Immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory. Surely you swerve upon ruin The just man's consenting heart, As here you have made bright anger Strike between father and son - And none has conquered but love! A girls' glance working the will of Heaven: Pleasure to her above who mocks us, Merciless Aphrodite.
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. -Iris Murdoch
May those that love us love us; and those that don’t love us, may God turn their hearts; if he can’t turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles, so we’ll know them by their limping. -Old Irish Curse
"Love's Passing" by Evelyn de Morgan Sonnet XIX. - Shakespeare WHEN in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights; Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have exprest Ev'n such a beauty as you master now. So all their praises are but prophecies Of this our time, all, you prefiguring; And for they look'd but with divining eyes, They had not skill enough your worth to sing: For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise. The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. -Robert Louis Stevenson
No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. -Robert Louis Stevenson
Edmund Dulac A loaf of bread beneath the tree, A flask of wine, a book of verse, And thou, beside me singing in the wilderness- This wilderness were paradise enow! -The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire. -Tielhard de Chardin
"Maiden Song" by Emma Florence Harrison Her arms across her breast she laid; She was more fair than words can say: Bare-footed came the beggar maid Before the king Cophetua. In robe and crown the king stept down, To meet and greet her on her way; 'It is no wonder,' said the lords, 'She is more beautiful than day.' As shines the moon in clouded skies, She in her poor attire was seen: One praised her ancles, one her eyes, One her dark hair and lovesome mien. So sweet a face, such angel grace, In all that land had never been: Cophetua sware a royal oath: 'This beggar maid shall be my queen!' -Tennyson
A true friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway. -Christi Mary Warner