"Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together and seeking beauty in a multiplicity of patches."
-from How to Make an American Quilt
"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and difficult as that."
-Michael Leunig
"Love is that which holds us together... love is that which liberates us."
-Maya Angelou
"In the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
-Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
"Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet."
-Tom Robbins
"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start at soon as possible."
-Nora Ephron
"Marriage is a not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. Marriage is a commitment to that which you are."
-Joseph Campbell
May you enjoy, together, the smell of fresh-cut grass, the warmth of each other's hands, the snores of your dogs gently slumbering, music that makes you want to dance, and the bounty of your table, both sweet and savory.
Ray Charles said "I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force within me." Thank you for sharing the music inside you, I hope you have found another of your parts in each other!
"The moon has become a dancer at this festival of love. This dance of light, this sacred blessing, this divine love beckons us to a world beyond where only lovers can see with their eyes of fiery passion. They are the chosen ones who have surrendered."
-Jalaluddin Rumi
My wish for you to know:
the first stone's throw continues by stages
to grow into a rock of ages.
You're wished more than happy ever after. You're wished the kind of friendship that gets more fun the longer it lasts.
Let the happiness that you feel today stay in your hearts forever!
I argue thee that love is life, and life hath immortality.
-Emily Dickinson
We love without knowing how or when or from where. We love straightforwardly without complexities or pride; so we love because we know no other way than this.
-Pablo Neruda
and my favorite which just describes our day so well:
love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail
it is most mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea
love is less always than to win
less never than alive
less bigger than the last begin
less littler than forgive
it is most sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky
e.e. cummings
