Published February 14, 2013
Stockton Sentinel
Stockton, Kansas
It’s
Valentine’s Day, and that means love is in the air! It’s a day to smell the
flowers, taste the chocolates, and pour the wine! Florists, jewelers and gift
shops bank on this day. I have my husband trained, however, never to treat me
to a box of chocolates, no matter how pretty the box. Don’t get me wrong… I
LOVE chocolates; I just don’t enjoy wearing them!
In
honor of this special day, I’ve collected a list of sentiments about love – a
veritable chocolate box of choice words – suitable for the occasion.
Y Come
live in my heart, and pay no rent. – Samuel Lover
Y If
you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I
never have to live without you. – A.A. Milne
Y A
loving heart is the truest wisdom. – Charles Dickens
Y The
best thing to hold onto in life is each other. – Audrey Hepburn
Y I
like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. – George Eliot
Y Love
isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you. – Loretta
Young
Y Affection
is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is
in our lives. – C.S. Lewis
Y Keep
love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers
are dead. – Oscar Wilde
Y Immature
love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you
because I love you.’ – Erich Fromm
Y Let
us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
– Mother Teresa
Y The
greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for
ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo
Y You
will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly
lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. – Henry
Drummond
Y What
we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part
of us. – Helen Keller
Y The
way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
Y ’Tis
better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord
Tennyson
Y Looking
back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. –
David Grayson
Y Who,
being loved, is poor? – Oscar Wilde
Y Love
never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want
what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, doesn’t have a swelled head, doesn’t
force itself on others, isn’t always ‘me first,’ doesn’t fly off the handle,
doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, doesn’t revel when others grovel,
takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, puts up with anything, trusts God
always, always looks for the best, never looks back, but keeps going to the
end. Love never dies. – I Corinthians 13: 4-7 MSG
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