Thoughts on Love for St. Valentine’s Day

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Scott Robertson, Managing Editor

Scott Robertson, Managing Editor

By Scott Robertson

Ah, February. When a young man’s heart turns to thoughts of snow removal.

But in the midst of the coldest month, we find the day that celebrates the warmest of all emotions, love. As is my wont on or around holiday observances, I’ll step aside from this space today to allow those who are far more intelligent, witty, wise and thoughtful to address the topic of the holiday, which in this case is love.

 

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

 

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

 

…Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself…

Mark 12:31

 

Don’t forget to love yourself.

Soren Kierkegaard

 

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.

Torquato Tasso

 

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi

‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich

 

Love does not consist merely in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

Love conquers all.

Virgil

 

Love and a red rose can’t be hid.

Thomas Holcroft

 

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Brendan Behan

 

If you wished to be loved, love.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Ovid

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

Henry Miller

 

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau

 

Love is the noblest frailty of the mind.

John Dryden

 

I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don’t know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.

Isabel Allende

 

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

James A. Baldwin

 

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

H. L. Mencken

 

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Victor Hugo

 

Love is blind.

Geoffrey Chaucer

 

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

 

True love stories never have endings.

Richard Bach

 

We are most alive when we’re in love.

John Updike

 

Love is more just than justice.

Henry Ward Beecher

 

Whom we love best, to them we can say the least.

John Ray

 

Affection should not be too sharp-eyed, and love is not to be made by magnifying glasses.

Sir Thomas Browne

 

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Paul Sweeney

 

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Robert A. Heinlein

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