Happy Valentine’s Day!
I woke up this morning filled with gratitude that I have my dear Valentine Harry (my husband of over 34 years) to celebrate with. I wanted to infuse that beautiful feeling of love and appreciation into my blog and so began doing a bit of research on the meaning of Valentine’s Day.
Sadly the first thing I found was a page espousing the horrible way our culture has turned every holiday into a commercial paradise for the merchant and taken the actual meaning away. As I began to peruse that page I couldn’t help but agree with his facts, but not necessarily with the bitter way he’s decided to feel.
My inclination is to enjoy the holiday for what it represents AND give those merchants a bit of business too. After all, I like chocolate and valentines cards and roses and romantic dinners. Just because they profit doesn’t mean I’m not going to enjoy my Valentine’s Day and I wish the same for you.
Below find a collection of Valentine’s Day quotes that should help to get you in the mood for love.
As Wendy Williams said on her television show yesterday, “hey, for those of you who don’t have a Valentine to be with it’s only one day”. Then she cited a bunch of television shows dramatically depicting love turned to hate and murder. Well whatever we need, to feel gratitude is okay with me LOLLLLLLL
Valentines Quotes for Love
Read each quote, close your eyes and allow the words of love to fill your heart. There need not be a special someone in order for you to feel and enjoy the beautiful words of the men and women below. Give yourself the gift of love for the one you must honor the most and that my dear readers is YOU. Be MY Valentine <3
In order of my favorites:
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.- Leo Tolstoy
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.-Helen Keller
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.- Lao Tzu
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires; To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully.- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.- Anais Nin CLICK TO TWEET
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.- Henry Ward Beecher
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.- Dorothy Parker
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.- Zora Neale Hurston
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.- Alice Walker CLICK TO TWEET
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.- Pablo Neruda, “Love Sonnet XVII”
My fabulous guest for this weeks radio show is psychic medium, Lisa Williams of TV fame. Listen and get her tips to develop your psychic ability and hear the amazing reading she did for me. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/yourhappinessway/2015/02/13/psychic-medium-lisa-williams
Another great post. I loved all of the quotes too!! I’m so glad you could celebrate Valentines Day with your husband of 34 years!