© Copyright Ada Kanu 2008

I consider myself a novice to marriage when compared to my parents and in-laws (48 and 50 years respectively), Frank and I are newbie’s going on 10-years, but as I as reminisce back to our wedding, and remember that this is prime wedding season, almost every day is somebody’s anniversary, so to all my lovebirds, and those still looking for love, this is for you!


A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
~ Leo F. Buscaglia

A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart.
~ Author Unknown

Above all things I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. Love is a many-splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!
~ From the movie Moulin Rouge

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
~ Leo Tolstoy

And here is my heart which beats only for you.
~ Paul Verlaine

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet…
~ Plato

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu

Believe in the importance of love, for it is the strength an beauty that brings music to our souls.
~ Author Unknown

But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.
~ Robert Burns

Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
~ Author Unknown

Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
~ Oscar Hammerstein

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
~ Erica Jong

Don’t frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.
~ Anonymous

Don’t hug me, it only makes me want to never let go.
~ Allison Mosher

Falling in love with someone isn’t always going to be easy… Anger… tears… laughter.. It’s when you want to be together despite it all. That’s when you truly love another. I’m sure of it.
~ Author Unknown

For all that you are and all that you do, and for the many ways you make my heart sing.
~ Leland Thomas

Goodnight! Goodnight!
Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say goodnight til it be morrow.
~ William Shakespeare

I am so glad that you are here… It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
~ Goethe

I believe in a kind of love that brings sailors home from the sea. Made up of seconds and years and the nospace between hands on skin. I cannot believe how much goes on. I can’t even cut out enough red hearts to keep up.
~ Sarah Mimnaugh

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.
~ Julia Roberts

I have learned not to worry about love;
But to honor its coming with all my heart.
~ Alice Walker

I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life wouldn’t be the same. Please don’t ever go away. And if you go, then don’t forget to take me with you.
~ Basia

I love her and
that’s the beginning of everything.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
~ Author Unknown

I think we dream so we don’t have to be away from one another. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we’ll always be together.
~ Hobbes

I’m not supposed to love you, I’m not supposed to care, I’m not supposed to live my life wishing you were there. I’m not supposed to wonder where you are or what you do…I’m sorry I can’t help myself, I’m in love with you.
~ Author Unknown

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin Into his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.
~ Emily Dickinson

If I could give you one gift, I would give you the ability to see yourself as I see you, so you could see how truly special you are.
~ Author Unknown

If I never met you, I wouldn’t like you. If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you. If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you. But I did, I do, and I will.
~ Author Unknown

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
~ Anonymous

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
~ Maya Angelou

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
~ Mother Teresa

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
~ Janos Arany

In love, there is always one who kisses & one who offers the cheek.
~ French proverb

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
~ Mignon McLaughlin

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
~ Hans Nouwens

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
~ Maya Angelou

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
~ Oscar Wilde

Let love be the sweet elixir that awakens your spirit and moves your soul to dance.
~ Author Unknown

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

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
~Kahlil Gibran

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
~ Dr. Joyce Brothers

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
~ William Shakespeare

Love demands all and has a right to it.
~ Beethoven

Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
~ Franklin P. Jones

Love doesn’t sit there like a stone. It has to be made like bread; remade all the time,…made new.
~ Le Guin

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
~ Elbert Hubbard

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get~only with what you are expecting to give~which is everything.
~ Katharine Hepburn

Love is a fan club with only two fans.
~ Anonymous

Love is a path to the heart that knows its own way.
~ Lamar Cole

Love is taking a few steps backward (maybe even more)…to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
~ Author Unknown

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Love is a never ending feeling.
~ Adeil Prince

Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here for a reason.
~ J. Ghetto

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
~ Eurpides

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
~ Helen Keller

Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time.
~ Kamila

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part in the process.
~ Henry Beyle Stendahl

Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent its coming back.
~ Nigerian Proverb

Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds and warming your soul.
~ Author Unknown

Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.
~ Kay Knudsen

Love is not blind, it sees more not less;
But because it sees more it chooses to see less.
~ Will Moss

Love is not something you look for,
Love is something you become.
~ Langley

Love is smiling on the inside and out.
~ Jennifer Williams

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

Love is the blueprint for happiness.
~ Lamar Cole

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
~ Erich Fromm

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
~ Vincent Van Gogh

Love wasn’t put in your heart to stay. Love isn’t love until you give it away.
~ Michael W.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man’s last romance.
~ Oscar Wilde

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.
~ Barbara Johnson

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald

Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
~ Author Unknown

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

See there’s this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It’s the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.
~ Gretchen Kemp

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
~ Saint Augustine

So, fall asleep love, loved by me….for I know love, I am loved by thee.
~ Robert Browning

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
~ Thomas Merton

The first duty of love is to listen.
~ Paul Tillich

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
~ J. Krishnamurti

The most beautiful things in the world are not seen nor touched. They are felt with the heart.
~ Helen Keller

The word love can be explained in thousands of ways, but the only word that comes to my mind is you.
~ Author Unknown

The world is filled with reasons why I love you.
~ Author Unknown

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.
~ Author Unknown

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
~ Samuel Butler

True love is like a pair of socks you gotta have two and they’ve gotta match.
~ Author Unknown

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
~ Sam Keen

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
~ Tom Robbins

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
~ Helen Keller

What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It’s we who make it complicated.
~ Leo Buscaglia

When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever.
~ Author Unknown

You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
~ Keith Sweat

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.
~ Author Unknown

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
~ Barbara De Angelis

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