Happy St. Valentine’s Day. As Virgil said a while back, “Love conquers all .” The world, now as then, needs to be conquered.
“At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Who, being loved, is poor?” — Oscar Wilde
“Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.” — C.S. Lewis
“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.” — Robert Browning
“If you want to be loved, be lovable.” — Ovid
“There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.” — Carlos Santana
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” — Thomas Merton
“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.” — G. K. Chesterton
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, not as you’d like them to be.” — Leo Tolstoy
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Brad,
Nice selection. I especially like Tolstoy’s comments — clearly, he was a practical romantic.