ON RELATIONSHIPS**

"It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride."
~ John Ruskin (posted 09/01/10)

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it,
no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
~ Ann Landers (posted 08/16/10)

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between
your minds, your hearts, and your souls,
the more you will strengthen the
fabric of your relationship,
and the more real
moments you
will experience
together.”
~ Barbara De Angelis (posted 08/12/10)

Love is space and time measured by the heart.
~ Marcel Proust (posted 08/09/10)

Love is the poetry of the senses.
~ Honoré de Balzac (posted 07/28/10)

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
~ Mother Teresa (posted 07/27/10)

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but
must be felt with the heart.
~ Helen Keller (posted 07/23/10)

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose
for themselves without any insistence
that they satisfy you.
~ Wayne Dyer (posted 07/07/10)

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now
and then, but the strings remain forever.
~ Unknown (posted 07/06/10)

The heart has its reasons that
reason knows nothing of.
~ Blaise Pascal (posted 07/02/10)

Paradise is always where love dwells.
~ Jean Paul Richter (posted 6/29/10)

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply
gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu, famous Chinese
philosopher (posted 6/23/10)

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
~ Janos Arany (posted 6/22/10)

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to
be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
~ Winston Churchill (posted 6/17/10)

The way to love anything is to realize
that it might be lost.
~ G. K. Chesterton (posted 6/16/10)

In real love you want the other person's good.
In romantic love you want the other person.
~ Margaret Anderson (posted 6/15/10)

Love is a choice you make from
moment to moment.
~ Barbara de Angelis (posted 6/14/10)

It takes a loose rein to keep a marriage tight.
~ John Stevenson (posted 6/11/10)

You don't need to be on the same wavelength
to succeed in marriage. You just need to be
able to ride each other's waves.
~Toni Sciarra Poynter (posted 6/10/10)

The course of true love never did run smooth.
~William Shakespear (posted 6/04/10)

Love sought is good,
but given unsought, is better. 
~William Shakespear (posted 5/26/10)

Let your love be like the misty rains,
coming softly, but flooding the river. 
~Malagasy Proverb (posted 4/29/10)

You really shouldn't say "I love you" unless you mean it.  But if you mean it, you should
say it a lot.  People forget.
~ Attributed to an 8-yearl-old girl named Jessica (posted 4/27/10)

The goal in marriage is not to think alike,
but to think together.
~ Robert Dodds (posted 4/14/10)

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
~Rabindranath Tagore (posted 04/06/10)

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.
~Henry David Thoreau (posted 03/31/10)

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. 
But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
~Julins Gordon (posted 03/29/10)

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
~Hans Nouwens (posted 03/17/10)

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.
~ Albert Ellis (posted 03/16/10)

Love does not consist of gazing at each other,
but in looking together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery (posted 03/11/10)

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
~ Mignon McLaughlin (posted 03/10/10)

To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.
~ Doménico Cieri Estrada (posted 03/09/10)

The love that lasts the longest is
the love that is never returned.
~ William Somerset Maugham (posted 03/08/10)

**After my wife and I celebrated our 29th anniversary this past week, I'm embarking on a year-long personal journey cherishing and reflecting on our relationship as we march toward our 30th in 2011...
(posted 03/02/10)

FAMOUS ILLUSTRATION:

When Frank Lloyd Wright, the greatest architect, was once asked what his favorite design was, he replied without any hesitation: "My next one".