Mar 22, 2016
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with a passion put to use I ld f d h h ldh d f h
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The Courtship of:
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Edgar Nollner
~ A Gift of Love from Their Parents ~ July 24, 2010
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What a strange thing is man . . .
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. . . and what a stranger thing woman.
~Lord Byron
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I’ve looked at love . . .
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. . . from both sides now . . .
~Joni Mitchell
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I think of wonderful, exciting, decent things,
when I look at her.
~John Wayne
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He is the one that makes me laugh.
~ Happy Gilmore
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And on that cheek,
and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
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The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
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A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love
is innocent!
~ Lord Byron
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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other . . . but in looking outward together . . . in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Fall in love, . . .stay in love,
and it will decide . . . everything.
~ Pedro Arrupe
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When you fall in love, . . it is a temporary madness.
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It erupts like an earthquake.
And then, it subsides. And when it subsides, . . .
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. . . you have to make a decision.
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You have to work out
whether your roots have become so. . .
entwined together . . .
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that it is inconceivable that you should ever part
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because this is. . . . . .what love is.
~Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
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I closed my eyes and wished . . .
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a thousand wishes
and dreamed a thousand dreams
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and when I opened my eyes,
. . . they all came true,
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for all I wanted was the world
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and my world was . . .you!
~Anonymous
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Where does the family start?
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It starts with a young man
falling in love with a girl.
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No superior alternative has yet been found.
~Winston Churchill
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If you would be loved, love, . . .
and be loveable.
~Benjamin Franklin
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She has such a beautiful smile and his laugh just makes you smile and be happy with him.
~ Unknown
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This is a perfect
world.
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I'm staring in your face . . . You'll photograph mine.
~from Perfect World on the album Little Creatures
by Talking Heads
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I mean to get to know
. . .what he loves.
~Anonymous
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Love will find a way . . .
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. . .through paths
where wolves fear to prey.
~ Lord Byron
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. . .these two guys were best friends
from the very beginning . . .
~ Sean William Scott
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Love will climb mountains,
cross seas and endure untold hardships.
~ Makerere Community Church
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. . . I've given more affection
in a handshake.
~ Diego Rivera
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The eye and brain edit things out,
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so you only see the things. . .
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. . .you're interested in.
~David Bryne
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It was . . .
. . . the best of times!
~Charles Dickens, 1859
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This is the miracle
that happens every time . . .
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. . . to those who really love:
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. . . the more they give,
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. . .the more they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
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I'll lean on you and you lean on me and
we'll be okay.
-- Dave Matthews Band
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She knows me too well
Knows me so well That I can tell
I really love her.
~The Beach Boys
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I will see what she sees,
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feel what she feels,
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hear what she hears,
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. . . until the very last moment.
When she dies, . . .
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I will most likely die with her, . . .
~ from The Lair of Bones by David Farland
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I have never let my schooling
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. . .interfere with my education.
~Mark Twain
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The most important thing in life is to learn
how to give out love, and to let it come in.
~Morrie Schwartz
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When we are parted,
we each feel the lack
of the other half of ourselves.
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We are incomplete . . . like a book
in two volumes
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of which the first
has been lost.
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That is what I . . . imagine love to be:
incompleteness in absence.
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Ever has it been said . . . that love knows not
its own depth until the hour of separation.
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– Kahlil Gibran
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Somewhere there waiteth
in this world of ours for one lone soul,
another lonely soul –
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Each chasing each through all the weary hours,
And meeting strangely at one sudden goal; . . .
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Then blend they –
like green leaves with golden flowers,
Into one beautiful and perfect whole.
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And life's long night is ended, and the way
Lies open onward . . .
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. . . to eternal day.
~Matthew Arnold
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My love, we will go, . . .
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we will go, I and you, . . .
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And away in the woods we will scatter the dew . . .
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~William Butler Yeats
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. . . nothing can bring back
the hour of splendor in the grass . . .
~ from the movie Splendor in the Grass
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I dreamed a dream, of love,
of life, of you, . . .
~ Anonymous
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I dreamed of a wedding
of elaborate elegance,
A church filled with family and friends.
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I asked him what kind
of a wedding he wished for,
He said one that would make me his wife.
~ Author Unknown
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~May Their Holy Union Be Forever Blessed. ~
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with a passion put to use
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