A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
** W. H. Auden

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
** St. Augustine 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

Love, and do what you like.
** St. Augustine

Love is the beauty of the soul.
** St. Augustine

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
** St. Augustine

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
** St. Augustine

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
* * Marcus Aurelius 121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.
* * Myrtle Auvil

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment.
* * Philippians 1:9

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.
* * Bible

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.
* * Bible

A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
* * Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author