A Secret Collection... And a Warm Heart

� � An old, wooden rocking chair sits beside the window in the library. As you walk over to it, you notice a hand-stitched quilt folded neatly on the seat. Each panel of the quilt is intricately detailed with images of wildflowers: morning glory, clover, daisy, phlox, and violet grace the soft fabric. The old masterpiece unfolds as you lift it up to the sunlight for a better look.

� � Unexpectedly, your eyes fall back to the wooden seat. You have uncovered something. You wrap the quilt around your shoulders as you pick up this new treasure: an ancient-looking leatherbound book. As you turn it over in your hands, a dried wildflower falls from between the pages. You sit in the old rocker and open the book, finding still more dried flowers pressed between the pages. You turn each page until you find another of the delicate bookmarks....


Take my hand and lead me to salvation,
Take my life, for love is everlasting
And remember the truth that once was spoken:
"To love another person is to see the face of GOD..."

--Excerpt from the Finale (10th Anniversary Les Miserables CD)

"To love someone is to reveal their inner beauty."

--This is one of my own!

I love you as I should love myself:
Without question, unconditionally...With all my heart.
If I could love myself as I do you,
I could love you with everything I am.

--Another of my own

You're in my heart, you're in my soul.
You'll be my breath should I grow old.
You are my lover, you're my best friend
You're in my soul.

--Excerpt from You're In My Heart� by Rod Stewart

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person
is essential to your own.

--Robert A.Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

If you be loved, be worthy of love.

--Ovid

Love seeketh only itself to please
To bind another to its delight;
Joy in another's loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.

--William Blake, "The Clod and the Pebble", Songs of Experience

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

--Voltaire

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion;
deaf to Counsel; it runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

--John Ford

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others,
and the delight in the recognition.

--Alexander Smith

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship,
all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed,
all the sweets of life.

--Joseph Addison

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

--Theodore Reik

Love is above all, the gift of oneself.

--Jean Anouilh, 1910-1987

Into my life you came
Bringing peace to my heart
Fire to my body
Love to my soul

In your eyes, I see myself
Feeling, Reaching, Looking
For perfect harmony

--Anonymous

If you have any additional quotes of a romantic nature,
you can e-mail them to me at [email protected]

I may use them on my page!

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