Oh, how we danced on the night we were wed

We vowed our true love though a word wasn’t said

The world was in bloom, there were stars in the skies

Except for the few that were there in your eyes.

The night seemed to fade into blossoming dawn

The sun shone anew but the dance lingered on

Could we but relive that sweet moment sublime

We’d find that our love is unaltered by time.

—from “The Anniversary Waltz,”composed by Dubin & Frankl

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.            —Nietzsche

The first duty of love is to listen.                                    —Paul Tillich

I don’t need to wake with you

In a warm bed, my arm beneath your head

I don’t need to walk with you

Through the rainy woods — bringing home the goods

But there’s one thing I do need to do:

I need to tell you I love you

Each and every day — in each and every way

I need to tell you I love you

And then — I’ll feel — okay.

                                                        —Greg Brown, “I Need To Tell You”

I am in love — and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.           —D.H. Lawrence

 

Love is patient; love is kind.

Love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.

It does not insist on its own way: it is not irritable or resentful;

it does not rejoice in wrong doing, but rejoices in truth.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

And now faith, hope, and love abide,

and the greatest of these is love.

                                                                                      —I Corinthians 13

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

                                                                                           —Kahlil Gibran

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

                                                                                     —Barnett Brickner

 

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company, than a good marriage.

—Martin Luther King