Monday, February 12, 2007

Love Thoughts

Yes, it's approaching tt day of love not just between couples but between friends as well, so here are some nuggets courtesy from O The Oprah Magazine, Feb issue:


"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another." ~ Thomas Merton

"Love is my decision to make your problem my concern." ~ Robert Schuller

"I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions." ~Jane Goodhall

"Still I enjoy the long sweetness of the simultaneity, yours and mine, ours and mine..." ~ John Ashbery

"Of all fires love is the only inehaustible one." ~ Pablo Neruda

"Loving should be fun and self-improving, not self-reducing and servile." ~ Molara Ogundipe-Leslie

"There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?" ~ Mary Oliver

"We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant... You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it." ~John Lennon

"This is a deep, permanent human condition, this need to be loved and to lve." ~ Annie Proulx

"If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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