Comments on: StumbleUpon Love

By: Tootie

Tootie — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:19:32 +0000

One of my all-time favorites is from Mother Teresa: “We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”

(Actually, I love it so much that I have a bracelet with the saying on it!)

By: Alice@Supratentorial

Alice@Supratentorial — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:28:22 +0000

I didn’t see this one on the site but I think it expresses what married love better than anything else I’ve read (outside of the Bible). From The Living by Annie Dillard…

Clare knew that common wisdom counseled that love was a malady that blinded lovers’ eyes like acid. Love’s skewed sight made hard features appear harmonious, and sinners appear saints, and cowards appear heroes. Clare was by no means an original thinker, but on this one point he had reached an opposing view, that lovers alone see what is real. The fear and envy and pride that stain souls are phantoms. The lover does not fancy that the beloved possesses imaginary virtues. He knew June was not especially generous, not especially noble in deportment, not especially tolerant, patient, or self-abasing. The lover is enabled to see – as if the heavens busted open to admit a charged light – those virtues the beloved does possess in their purest form. June was a marvel, and she smelled good.

What could other people know of June’s courage in loss, her upwelling hopefulness, her defiant will, her quick, startling wit that made play of even ardent moments? The skin of her temple, that dipped across the hollow, and the soft ruddiness over her hard forehead.

By: Butterfly Mama

Butterfly Mama — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:44:23 +0000

You can give without loving,
but you cannot love without giving….Amy Carmichael.

By: PollyS

PollyS — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:46:18 +0000

Really, anything by Leo Buscaglia is wonderful. If you haven’t read his books or heard his lectures, run to your library. He’s fantastic. Will change the way you look at love.
Here’s a good one: “Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
~Leo Buscaglia

By: Tricia

Tricia — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:30:31 +0000

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all
in your own house. Give love to your children,
to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor…
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better
and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness;
kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in
your smile, kindness in your warm greeting….Mother Teresa.

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:55:15 +0000

True love begins when nothing is looked
for in return….Antoine De Saint-Exupery.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:45:35 +0000

The strongest evidence of love is sacrifice….Carolyn Fry.

By: Linda Sue

Linda Sue — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:01:13 +0000

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

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:46:28 +0000

True love stories never have endings….Unknown.

By: Staci

Staci — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:54:26 +0000

“True love” isn’t so much a dreamy feeling that you have
as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially — even,
or perhaps especially, when you don’t feel like it….William R. Mattox, Jr.–

Thanks for Sharing Mary. The Hubby and I argued last night over something stupid..but this quote sums up why we still keep together. Perfect timing!