Words easily flow...

As I close the summer months, I’d like to share a few passages which I think many of us can relate to. These are all about love, a cliché, used or unused, it speaks my mind in so many ways. The last quote, from Jessica Zafra, is the one I have been living on these past few days.

“And now listen to me in turn. You have touched me more profoundly than I thought even you could have touched me - my heart was full when you came here today. Henceforward I am yours for everything....” – Love letter to Robert, from Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“…the perfection of love is not being loved, but being lover.” – from Umberto Eco’s The Island Of The Day Before

“Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.” – Leo Buscaglia

“Walang iba pang sasarap sa pagtitinginan natin…” – VST & Company

“If I can stop the heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain…
I shall not live in vain.”
– Emily Dickinson

“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want…
Even though I walk through the valley
Of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil, for you are with me.”
– Psalm 23

“I’ve dreamt my life in dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.” – Emily Bronte

“Love is irrational, which is why we have the knack for picking the one person who will make us miserable. The question is: Do we pick that person because we want to be miserable?” – Jessica Zafra